With the advent of large scale heterogeneous environments, there is a need for matching and scheduling algorithms which can allow multiple DAG-structured applications to share the...
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...
1 Although widely used in distributed transactional systems, the so-called Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol introduces a substantial delay in transaction processing, even in the abs...
Maha Abdallah, Rachid Guerraoui, Philippe Pucheral
PULC is a user-level communication library for workstation clusters. PULC provides a multi-user, multi-programming communication library for user level communication on top of high...
Joachim M. Blum, Thomas M. Warschko, Walter F. Tic...
In this paper, we present several novel strategies to improve software controlled cache utilization, so as to achieve lower power requirements for multi-media and signal processin...