— High-end computing (HEC) systems have passed the petaflop barrier and continue to move toward the next frontier of exascale computing. As companies and research institutes con...
Narayan Desai, Darius Buntinas, Daniel Buettner, P...
This paper reports on an implementation of Bayer's Time Interval concurrency control method and compares it to the performance of a conventional timestamp method. The impleme...
In a distributed storage system, client caches managed on the basis of small granularity objects can provide better memory utilization then page-based caches. However, object serv...
Grid computing relies on fragile partnerships. Clients with hundreds or even thousands of pending service requests must seek out and form temporary alliances with remote servers e...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...