We consider storage in an extremely large-scale distributed computer system designed for stream processing applications. In such systems, incoming data and intermediate results ma...
Kirsten Hildrum, Fred Douglis, Joel L. Wolf, Phili...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are characterized by direct access between peer computers, rather than through a centralized server. File sharing is the dominant P2P application on the...
After a component based system is developed, it has to be deployed into a target environment. As the system becomes much larger and more complex and the environment becomes open an...
Ling Lan, Gang Huang, Liya Ma, Meng Wang, Hong Mei...
Huge energy consumption has become a critical bottleneck for further applying large-scale cluster systems to build new data centers. Among various components of a data center, sto...
Ziliang Zong, Matt Briggs, Nick O'Connor, Xiao Qin
Despite great efforts on the design of ultra-reliable components, the increase of system size and complexity has outpaced the improvement of component reliability. As a result, fa...
Jiexing Gu, Ziming Zheng, Zhiling Lan, John White,...