With the ongoing trend towards the globalization of software systems and their development, components in these systems might not only work together, but may end up evolving indep...
With the evolution of Grid technologies and the application of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), more and more enterprises are integrated and collaborated with each other in a ...
In this paper we describe the evolution of Global File Systems from the concept of a few years ago, to a first demonstration using hardware Fibre Channel frame encoding into IP pa...
The Linux 2.6 kernel supports asynchronous I/O as a result of propositions from the database industry. This is a positive evolution but is it a panacea? In the context of the Badg...
: A distributed system is scalable if the rate at which it completes its computation and communication tasks does not depend on its size. As an example, the scalability of a peer-t...