The peer-to-peer approach to design large-scale systems has significant benefits including scalability, low cost of ownership, robustness, and ability to provide site autonomy. ...
This paper introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases are a variation of leases, w...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Calvin L...
This paper presents a hybrid shared memory architecture which combines the scalability of a multistage interconnection network with the contention reduction benefits of coherent c...
The counterflow pipeline concept was originated by Sproull et al.[1] to demonstrate the concept of asynchronous circuits. This architecture relies on distributed decision making an...
Current large distributed systems allow users to share and trade resources. In cloud computing, users purchase different types of resources from one or more resource providers usi...