USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months 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 1 months 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 1 months 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 1 months 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 1 months 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 1 months 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 1 months 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 1 months 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 1 months 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 1 months 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...