Modern application infrastructures are based on clustered, multi-tiered architectures, where request distribution occurs in two sequential stages: over a cluster of web servers, a...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Helen M. Thomas, Kaushik Dutt...
Modern server farm and cluster sites consume large quantities of energy both to power and cool the machines in the site. At the same time, less power supply redundancy is offered ...
Ramakrishna Kotla, Soraya Ghiasi, Tom W. Keller, F...
Large-scale applications require the efficient exchange of data across their distributed components, including data from heterogeneous sources and to widely varying clients. Inher...
d Abstract) Vijay Saraswat1 and Radha Jagadeesan2 1 IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab 2 School of CTI, DePaul University Abstract. We present the concurrency and distribution primitives...
Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...