Grid computing and cluster computing platforms are becoming the primary development platforms for pervasive computing. The primary problem associated with both computational grids...
Avinash Shankar, Daniel Saffioti, Ian Piper, Ashwi...
Grids have become a critical asset in large-scale scientific and engineering research. Accessing to distributed data is typically as important as access to distributed computatio...
Gregor von Laszewski, Beulah Alunkal, Jarek Gawor,...
The tradeoffs between consistency, performance, and availability are well understood. Traditionally, however, designers of replicated systems have been forced to choose from eithe...
Object middleware, such as CORBA, is rapidly gaining acceptance as a means for cost effective and fast development for a wide range of applications in various areas of industry. St...
Maarten Wegdam, Dirk-Jaap Plas, Aart van Halteren,...
The development of a Distributed Information System (DIS) can lead to critical bottlenecks because of the underlying architecture, which is becoming more and more complex. Todays ...