A distributed system is a collection of computers that are connected via a communication network. Distributed systems have become commonplace due to the wide availability of low-c...
Data centers are often under-utilized due to over-provisioning as well as time-varying resource demands of typical enterprise applications. One approach to increase resource utili...
Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa...
This paper introduces a new benchmark tool for evaluating performance and availability (performability) of networked storage systems, specifically storage area network (SAN) that...
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
We investigate the use of a thin-client based configuration in providing students with universal access to a centralized, graphical computing environment. The primary goal is to ...