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HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Using Reconciliation to Share Files Between Occasionally Connected Computers
Future large distributed systems will be made by interconnecting highly autonomous subsystems, rather than by building ever more elaborate complexes which attempt to provide a sin...
John H. Howard
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Object Groups May Be Better Than Pages
I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...
Mark Day
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Processor Capacity Reserves: An Abstraction for Managing Processor Usage
Clifford W. Mercer, Stefan Savage, Hideyuki Tokuda
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Providing Network Video Service to Mobile Clients
Mobile computing and multimedia are two emerging trends in computer systems. One foreseeable application suggested by these two trends is the playback of stored video on both mobi...
Bruce A. Mah, Srinivasan Seshan, Kimberly Keeton, ...
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
User Interface Issues in Mobile Computing
The age of mobile computing with small portable computers is upon us. However, systems researchers continue to focus on transferring their workstation environments to these machin...
James A. Landay, Todd R. Kaufmann
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Need for Customizable Operating Systems
Gregor Kiczales, John Lamping, Chris Maeda, David ...
SIGOPSE
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
World wide failures
The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
Werner Vogels
SIGOPSE
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
How to scale transactional storage systems
Applications of the future will need to support large numbers of clients and will require scalable storage systems that allow state to be shared reliably. Recent research in distr...
Liuba Shrira, Barbara Liskov, Miguel Castro, Atul ...
SIGOPSE
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
AFS and the web: competitors or collaborators?
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Mirjana Spasojevic
SIGOPSE
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The persistent relevance of the local operating system to global applications
The growth and popularity of loosely-coupled distributed systems such as the World Wide Web and the touting of Java-based systems as the solution to the issues of software mainten...
Jay Lepreau, Bryan Ford, Mike Hibler