As technical systems keep growing more complex and sophisticated, designing software for the safety-critical coordination between their components becomes increasingly difficult....
Holger Giese, Stefan Henkler, Martin Hirsch, Flori...
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
As we enter the era of petascale computing, system architects must plan for machines composed of tens or even hundreds of thousands of processors. Although fully connected network...
Shoaib Kamil, Ali Pinar, Daniel Gunter, Michael Li...