The emerging paradigms of service oriented architectures and utility-based computing have the potential to greatly reduce the cost of data management. Data management service prov...
This paper studies cluster load balancing policies and system support for fine-grain network services. Load balancing on a cluster of machines has been studied extensively in the...
Abstract. Nowadays, virtualization solutions are gaining increasing importance. By enabling the sharing of physical resources, thus making resource usage more efficient, they promi...
Nikolaus Huber, Marcel von Quast, Fabian Brosig, S...
In this paper we present 411, a password distribution system for high performance environments that provides security and scalability. We show that existing solutions such as NIS ...
Federico D. Sacerdoti, Mason J. Katz, Philip M. Pa...
Object-based parallel and distributed applications are becoming increasingly popular, driven by the programmability advantages of component technology and a flat shared-object spa...