This paper examines the issue of dynamically scheduling applications on a wide-area network computing system. We construct a simulation model for wide-area task allocation problem...
Abstract-- Many popular Web sites suffer occasional uservisible problems such as slow responses, blank pages or error messages being displayed, items not being added to shopping ca...
Failure detectors are a service that provides (approximate) information about process crashes in a distributed system. The well-known “eventually perfect” failure detector, 3P...
Scaling of CMOS feature size has long been a source of dramatic performance gains. However, the reduction in voltage levels has not been able to match this rate of scaling, leadin...
Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Amin Ansari, Jason ...
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...