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ITICSE
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Xen worlds: leveraging virtualization in distance education
The Xen Worlds project at Iowa State University was designed to provide a virtualized lab environment for the Information Assurance program. The large number of off-campus student...
Benjamin R. Anderson, Amy K. Joines, Thomas E. Dan...
PODC
1999
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
LOTEC: A Simple DSM Consistency Protocol for Nested Object Transactions
In this paper, we describe an e cient software-only Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) consistency protocol for an unconventional but important application domain - object transactio...
Peter C. J. Graham, Yahong Sui
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
P-Store: Genuine Partial Replication in Wide Area Networks
Partial replication is a way to increase the scalability of replicated systems since updates only need to be applied to a subset of the system's sites, thus allowing replicas...
Nicolas Schiper, Pierre Sutra, Fernando Pedone
EDBT
2011
ACM
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13 years 1 months ago
RanKloud: a scalable ranked query processing framework on hadoop
The popularity of batch-oriented cluster architectures like Hadoop is on the rise. These batch-based systems successfully achieve high degrees of scalability by carefully allocati...
K. Selçuk Candan, Parth Nagarkar, Mithila N...
SIGCOMM
2012
ACM
12 years 26 days ago
Network-aware service placement in a distributed cloud environment
We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...