The increasing use of the web for serving http content, for database transactions, etc. can place heavy stress on servers. Flash crowds can occur at a server when there is a burst ...
Abstract—With the growing complexity of software applications, there is an increasing demand for solutions to distribute workload into server pools. Grid Computing provides power...
Xing Zhou, Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Jobin P...
The increasing demand for reliable computers has led to proposals for hardware-assisted rollback of memory state. Such approach promises major reductions in Mean Time To Repair (M...
Jun Nakano, Pablo Montesinos, Kourosh Gharachorloo...
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access c...
Keith R. Jackson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Krishna Mu...
A cost-effective approach to building up scalable Videoon-Demand (VoD) servers is to couple a number of VoD servers together in a cluster. In this article, we study a crucial vide...