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IPPS
2007
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
An Implementation and Evaluation of Client-Side File Caching for MPI-IO
Client-side file caching has long been recognized as a file system enhancement to reduce the amount of data transfer between application processes and I/O servers. However, cach...
Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. ...
NSDI
2007
15 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Similarity for Multi-Source Downloads Using File Handprints
Many contemporary approaches for speeding up large file transfers attempt to download chunks of a data object from multiple sources. Systems such as BitTorrent quickly locate sou...
Himabindu Pucha, David G. Andersen, Michael Kamins...
SIGUCCS
2000
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Approaches to Computer Lab Management: Lockdown vs. Freedom
Basic approaches to computer lab management range along a spectrum from total lockdown of lab computers to total freedom. Total lockdown, which can be implemented with system perm...
Christopher Jones, Yasemin Tunc, Deborah Cherry
AP2PC
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Enabling Grassroots Distributed Computing with CompTorrent
This paper describes the operational characteristics of “CompTorrent”, a general purpose distributed computing platform that provides a low entry cost to creating new distribut...
Bradley Goldsmith
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PERCOM
2004
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Towards a Better Understanding of Context Attributes
The use of context as an input is one of the major characteristics of Ubiquitous Computing systems. This paper looks into the structural and the systematic features of context in ...
Tobias Zimmer