Large-scale distributed systems are hard to deploy, and distributed hash tables (DHTs) are no exception. To lower the barriers facing DHT-based applications, we have created a pub...
Sean C. Rhea, Brighten Godfrey, Brad Karp, John Ku...
: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...
— High-end computing (HEC) systems have passed the petaflop barrier and continue to move toward the next frontier of exascale computing. As companies and research institutes con...
Narayan Desai, Darius Buntinas, Daniel Buettner, P...
— There are many grid-based applications where a timely response to an important event is needed. Often such response can require a significant computation and possibly communic...
Abstract—In future massively distributed service-based computational systems, resources will span many locations, organisations and platforms. In such systems, the ability to all...