A conventional file system provides the user with generic structure and semantics for accessing files. The default scheme is sufficient for many applications. However, many applic...
Paul W. Schermerhorn, Robert J. Minerick, Peter W....
Most Internet services rely on the traditional client-server model, where the quality of services usually depends on the performance of those servers. In this paper, we propose a ...
Chei-Yol Kim, Sung-Hoon Sohn, Baik-Song Ahn, Gyu-I...
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
Mitigating the impact of computer failure is possible if accurate failure predictions are provided. Resources, applications, and services can be scheduled around predicted failure...