USENIX
2004
14 years 28 days ago
2004
Large web or e-commerce sites are frequently hosted on clusters. Successful open-source tools exist for clustering the front tiers of such sites (web servers and application serve...
USENIX
2004
14 years 28 days ago
2004
This paper presents DTrace, a new facility for dynamic instrumentation of production systems. DTrace features the ability to dynamically instrument both user-level and kernel-leve...
USENIX
2004
14 years 28 days ago
2004
The common usage patterns of 2D drivers for the X Window System have changed over time. New extensions such as Render and Composite are creating new demands for 2D rendering which...
USENIX
2004
14 years 28 days ago
2004
Multihoming is increasingly being employed by large enterprises and data centers as a mechanism to extract good performance from their provider connections. Today, multihomed end-...
USENIX
2004
14 years 28 days ago
2004
Network positioning has recently been demonstrated to be a viable concept to represent the network distance relationships among Internet end hosts. Several subsequent studies have...
USITS
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
Previous research has addressed the scalability and availability issues associated with the construction of cluster-based network services. This paper studies the clustering of re...
USITS
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
The boundary between the network edge and the front-end servers of the data center is blurring. Appliance vendors are flooding the market with new capabilities, while switch/route...
USITS
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
This paper presents a set of techniques for providing fine-grained failover of long-running connections across a distributed collection of replica servers, and is especially usefu...
USITS
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
The usage and service options of a pubic network generally differ from a private (enterprise or home) network and consequently, the two networks are often configured differently. ...
USITS
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
Puppeteer is a system for adapting component-based applications in mobile environments. Puppeteer takes advantage of the exported interfaces of these applications and the structur...