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Abstract. Existing middleware is based on control-flow centric interaction models such as remote method invocations, poorly matching the structure of applications that process con...
Rainer Koster, Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Jonatha...
Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in modern distributed systems. Most recently, industry has witnessed the emergence of component-based middleware pla...
Michael Clarke, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Ni...
Although it has long been realised that ACID transactions by themselves are not adequate for structuring long-lived applications and much research work has been done on developing...
Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santos...
The Maui scheduler has received wide acceptance in the HPC community as a highly configurable and effective batch scheduler. It is currently in use on hundreds of SP, O2K, and Li...
This note briefly summarizes some results from two papers: [4] and [23]. These papers pose the following question: Is it possible to reduce the expected response time of every req...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Nikhil Bansal, Bianca Schroede...
Networks of Workstations (NOW) have become important and cost-effective parallel platforms for scientific computations. In practice, a NOW system is heterogeneous and non-dedicat...
The arrival process of jobs submitted to a parallel system is bursty, leading to fluctuations in the load at many time scales. In particular, rare events of extreme load may occu...
This paper characterizes the production workload that highly utilizes the NCSA Origin 2000. The characterization includes the distributions of job interarrival time, requested num...