This paper proposes a real options framework for evaluating architectural choices and the economic value of these alternative choices of networks, protocols, and services. Using p...
Many contemporary approaches for speeding up large file transfers attempt to download chunks of a data object from multiple sources. Systems such as BitTorrent quickly locate sou...
Himabindu Pucha, David G. Andersen, Michael Kamins...
GridFTP, designed by using the Globus XIO framework, is one of the most popular methods for performing data transfers in the Grid environment. But the performance of GridFTP in WA...
Hari Subramoni, Ping Lai, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Dha...
In this paper we investigate protocols for scheduling applications that consist of large numbers of identical, independent tasks on large-scale computing platforms. By imposing a ...
Barbara Kreaseck, Larry Carter, Henri Casanova, Je...
—Multithreaded servers with cache-coherent shared memory are the dominant type of machines used to run critical network services and database management systems. To achieve the h...