Scientists today conduct new research via software-based experimentation and validation in a host of disciplines, including materials science, life sciences, astronomy, and physic...
David Woollard, Chris Mattmann, Daniel Popescu, Ne...
Abstract. Data aggregation is a key aspect of many distributed applications, such as distributed sensing, performance monitoring, and distributed diagnostics. In such settings, use...
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Ranjita Bhagwan, Venkata...
The design of large-scale, distributed, performance-sensitive systems presents numerous challenges due to their networkcentric nature and stringent quality of service (QoS) requir...
IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...
A case study of performance and dependability evaluation of fault-tolerant multiprocessors is presented. Two specific architectures are analyzed taking into account system functio...