Distributed multimedia applications will be an important part of tomorrow's application mix and require appropriate operating system (OS) support. Neither hard real-time solu...
We introduce Membrane, a set of changes to the operating system to support restartable file systems. Membrane allows an operating system to tolerate a broad class of file system f...
Abstract-- Shared temporary storage space is often the constraining resource for clusters that serve as execution nodes in wide-area distributed systems. At least one large nationa...
Abstract. Global distributed systems must be standards-based to allow interoperability between all of their components. While this guarantees interoperability, it often causes loca...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
Computational e-mail systems, which allow mail messages to containcommandscripts that automaticallyexecute upon receipt, can be used as a basis for building a variety of collabora...