I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...
Wide-area distributed systems like computational grids are emergent infrastructures for high-performance parallel applications. On these systems, communication mechanisms have to ...
Fabric is a new system and language for building secure distributed information systems. It is a decentralized system that allows heterogeneous network nodes to securely share bot...
Jed Liu, Michael D. George, K. Vikram, Xin Qi, Luc...
Distributed systems are now both very large and highly dynamic. Peer to peer overlay networks have been proved efficient to cope with this new deal that traditional approaches can ...
Vincent Gramoli, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Achour Most...
nt systems support a single storage abstraction in which all data may be created and manipulated in a uniform manner, regardless of its longevity. In such systems a protection mec...
Alan Dearle, Rex di Bona, James Farrow, Frans A. H...