— This paper describes WOW, a distributed system that combines virtual machine, overlay networking and peerto-peer techniques to create scalable wide-area networks of virtual wor...
Arijit Ganguly, Abhishek Agrawal, P. Oscar Boykin,...
Open Source Software (OSS) has made great strides toward mainstream acceptance over the past two years. However, many IT managers, both in business and academia, are still cautiou...
Mike Davis, Will O'Donovan, John Fritz, Carlisle C...
This paper proposes an architecture for optimized resource allocation in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)-based cloud systems. Current IaaS systems are usually unaware of the ho...
Many techniques have been proposed to scale web applications. However, the data interdependencies between the database queries and transactions issued by the applications limit th...
The growth in complexity of modern systems makes it increasingly difficult to extract high-performance. The software stacks for such systems typically consist of multiple layers a...