We investigate issues related to the probe complexity of quorum systems and their implementation in a dynamic environment. Our contribution is twofold. The first regards the algo...
Compiled communication has recently been proposed to improve communication performance for clusters of workstations. The idea of compiled communication is to apply more aggressive...
Condor provides high throughput computing by leveraging idlecycles on off-the-shelf desktop machines. It also supports flocking, a mechanism for sharing resources among Condor po...
To be widely adopted, location-aware computing must be as effortless, familiar and rewarding as web search tools like Google. We envisage the global scale Place Lab, consisting of...
Bill N. Schilit, Anthony LaMarca, Gaetano Borriell...
The speed of storing and fetching data on SCSI disks has a great restriction on the efficiency of SAN based on Fiber Channel Network. In this paper, a high-efficient FC-SAN storage...