A content-addressable storage (CAS) system is a valuable tool for building storage solutions, providing efficiency by automatically detecting and eliminating duplicate blocks; it ...
Cristian Ungureanu, Benjamin Atkin, Akshat Aranya,...
Support for distributed application management in large-scale networked environments remains in its early stages. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application ...
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Ryan Braud, Darren Dao, Nikol...
System administrators regularly use the top utility for understanding the resource consumption of the processes running on UNIX computers. Top provides an accurate and real-time d...
We present a performance analysis of an agent-based middleware system we have developed based on "reAgents," remotely executing agents that enhance the performance of cl...
Within a group of peers, it is often useful or interesting to know whether someone in the group has gone to bed or whether they have awakened in the morning. This information, nat...
Sunyoung Kim, Julie A. Kientz, Shwetak N. Patel, G...