The WWW has made information and services more available than ever before. Many of the first Web applications have been emulations of real world activities, in particular, e-comme...
This paper introduces Pact, a new model for parallel heuristic programming on MIMD machines. Designed and implemented as an integrated tool environment, Pact allows the user to dev...
A problem with many distributed applications is their behavior in lieu of unpredictable variations in user request volumes or in available resources. This paper explores a performa...
— Current Web servers use various API sets to access backend services. This model does not support service differentiation, overload control, caching of contents generated by bac...
We describe a prototypical storage service through which we are addressing some of the open storage issues in wide-area distributed high-performance computing. We discuss some of t...