We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...
Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
Distributed key-value stores are now a standard component of high-performance web services and cloud computing applications. While key-value stores offer significant performance...
The objective of this research is to convert ordinary idle PCs into virtual clusters for executing parallel applications. The paper introduces VolpexMPI that is designed to enable ...
Troy LeBlanc, Rakhi Anand, Edgar Gabriel, Jaspal S...
An important issue of distributed systems is interoperability. Lack of interoperability between distributed systems is a common problem with current and legacy applications. Since...