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EUROPAR
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Faults in Large Distributed Systems and What We Can Do About Them
Scientists are increasingly using large distributed systems built from commodity off-the-shelf components to perform scientific computation. Grid computing has expanded the scale ...
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar, Miron Livny
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MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
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DSN
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Why PCs Are Fragile and What We Can Do About It: A Study of Windows Registry Problems
Software configuration problems are a major source of failures in computer systems. In this paper, we present a new framework for categorizing configuration problems. We apply thi...
Archana Ganapathi, Yi-Min Wang, Ni Lao, Ji-Rong We...
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GRID
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Faults in Grids: Why are they so bad and What can be done about it?
Computational Grids have the potential to become the main execution platform for high performance and distributed applications. However, such systems are extremely complex and pro...
Raissa Medeiros, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Vilar B...
ECCV
2002
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
What Can Be Known about the Radiometric Response from Images?
Abstract. Brightness values of pixels in an image are related to image irradiance by a non-linear function, called the radiometric response function. Recovery of this function is i...
Michael D. Grossberg, Shree K. Nayar