A distributed system is a collection of computers that are connected via a communication network. Distributed systems have become commonplace due to the wide availability of low-c...
Grid computations require global access to massive data stores. To meet this need, the GridNFS project aims to provide scalable, high-performance, transparent, and secure wide-are...
MapReduce has been widely used for large-scale data analysis in the Cloud. The system is well recognized for its elastic scalability and fine-grained fault tolerance although its...
We present a model for the parallel performance of algorithms that consist of concurrent, two-dimensional wavefronts implemented in a message passing environment. The model combine...
Adolfy Hoisie, Olaf M. Lubeck, Harvey J. Wasserman
Large client-server data intensive applications can place high demands on system and network resources. This is especially true when the connection between the client and server s...