Quorums are a basic construct in solving many fundamental distributed computing problems. One of the known ways of making quorums scalable and efficient is by weakening their int...
Abstract—Network applications often require large data storage resources, fast queries, and frequent updates. Hash tables support these operations with low costs, yet they cannot...
In recent years, instant messaging (IM) has become a popular medium of online communication. While IM is expanding into the enterprise beyond personal use, it brings the convenien...
Cell Broadband EngineTM is a multi-core system on a chip and is composed of a general-purpose Power Processing Element (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). Its ...
— There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a ...
Dara Kusic, Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, N...