Abstract. To solve problems that require far more memory than a single machine can supply, data can be swapped to disk in some manner, it can be compressed, and/or the memory of mu...
Currently, a number of distributed software systems development tools exist, but typically they are designed either to satisfy industrial standards – industrial perspective – o...
Alcides Calsavara, Agnaldo K. Noda, Juarez da Cost...
Abstract. Virtualization technology has become commonplace in modern data centers and cluster systems, often referred as “computing clouds”. In particular, the capability of vi...
William Voorsluys, James Broberg, Srikumar Venugop...
To date, systems offering multitasking for the JavaTM programming language either use one process or one class loader for each application. Both approaches are unsatisfactory. Usi...
Replication is one of the prominent approaches for obtaining fault tolerance. Implementing replication on commodity hardware and in a transparent fashion, i.e., without changing t...