Constructing logical machines out of collections of physical machines is a well-known technique for improving the robustness and fault tolerance of distributed systems. We present...
Yair Amir, Brian A. Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John La...
Partial replication is a way to increase the scalability of replicated systems since updates only need to be applied to a subset of the system's sites, thus allowing replicas...
Scientific applications require sophisticated data management capabilities. We present the design and implementation of a Data Replication Service (DRS), one of a planned set of h...
Ann L. Chervenak, Robert Schuler, Carl Kesselman, ...
The lack of a flexible consistency management solution hinders P2P implementation of applications involving updates, such as read-write file sharing, directory services, online ...
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...