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USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
C-JDBC: Flexible Database Clustering Middleware
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...
Emmanuel Cecchet, Julie Marguerite, Willy Zwaenepo...
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems
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...
Bryan Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro, Adam H. Levent...
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
High Performance X Servers in the Kdrive Architecture
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...
Eric Anholt
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Multihoming Performance Benefits: An Experimental Evaluation of Practical Enterprise Strategies
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-...
Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh
USENIX
2004
13 years 10 months ago
A Network Positioning System for the Internet
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...
T. S. Eugene Ng, Hui Zhang
USITS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Neptune: Scalable Replication Management and Programming Support for Cluster-based Network Services
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...
Kai Shen, Tao Yang, Lingkun Chu, JoAnne Holliday, ...
USITS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
CSP: A Novel System Architecture for Scalable Internet and Communication Services
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...
Hemal V. Shah, Dave B. Minturn, Annie Foong, Gary ...
USITS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Fine-Grained Failover Using Connection Migration
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...
Alex C. Snoeren, David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrish...
USITS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Host Configuration for Managing Mobility Between Public and Private Networks
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. ...
Allen K. L. Miu, Paramvir Bahl
USITS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Puppeteer: Component-based Adaptation for Mobile Computing
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...
Eyal de Lara, Dan S. Wallach, Willy Zwaenepoel