In common with many large institutes, CERN has traditionally developed and maintained its own data management solutions. Recently, a significant change of direction has taken plac...
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is that their robust operation is even more imp...
Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
Given the inevitable trends towards increasing complexity of software-intensive systems, many future software-intensive systems will be ultra-large scale (ULS). Radical scale-up o...
Richard P. Gabriel, Rick Kazman, Linda M. Northrop...
In most large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, it is necessary to collect vital statistics data — sometimes referred to as logs — from up to millions of peers. Tradition...