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ICDCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Interpreting Stale Load Information
In this paper we examine the problem of balancing load in a large-scale distributed system when information about server loads may be stale. It is well known that sending each req...
Michael Dahlin
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Efficient Collective Communication in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems
The Information Power Grid (IPG) is emerging as an infrastructure that will enable distributed applications
Prashanth B. Bhat, Cauligi S. Raghavendra, Viktor ...
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
HiFi: A New Monitoring Architecture for Distributed Systems Management
With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliab...
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Mal...
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Fault Tolerant Video on Demand Services
This paper describes a highly available distributedvideo on demand (VoD) service which is inherently fault tolerant. The VoD service is provided by multiple servers that reside at...
Tal Anker, Danny Dolev, Idit Keidar
HPDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Process Hijacking
Process checkpointing is a basic mechanism required for providing High Throughput Computing service on distributively owned resources. We present a new process checkpoint and migr...
Victor C. Zandy, Barton P. Miller, Miron Livny
HPDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Predicting the CPU Availability of Time-shared Unix Systems on the Computational Grid
In this paper we focus on the problem of making short and medium term forecasts of CPU availability on timeshared Unix systems. We evaluate the accuracy with which availability ca...
Richard Wolski, Neil T. Spring, Jim Hayes
HPDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
CAT: A High Performance Distributed Component Architecture Toolkit for the Grid
Grid systems such as Globus, Legion, and Globe provide an infrastructure for implementing metacomputing over the Internet. The Component Architecture Toolkit (CAT) provides a soft...
Juan E. Villacis, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, David S...
HPDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
A Network-Aware Distributed Storage Cache for Data Intensive Environments
Modern scientific computing involves organizing, moving, visualizing, and analyzing massive amounts of data at multiple sites around the world. The technologies, the middleware se...
Brian Tierney, Jason Lee, Brian Crowley, Mason Hol...
HPDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Overview of a Performance Evaluation System for Global Computing Scheduling Algorithms
While there have been several proposals of high performance global computing systems, scheduling schemes for the systems have not been well investigated. The reason is difficultie...
Atsuko Takefusa, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidemoto Nakada...
HPDC
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
The UNICORE Architecture Seamless Access to Distributed Resources
Seamless access to different systems of different vendors at different sites is an important prerequisite to effective and efficient use of distributed resources. Learning about n...
Mathilde Romberg