MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
This paper discusses four ways that humans interact with their environments, plus four variables that determine the experience of virtual reality, and also which of the interactio...
Understanding the performance behaviour of Java Virtual Machines is important to Java systems developers and to applications developers. We review a range of Java benchmark progra...
J. A. Mathew, Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawic...
Cloud security issues have recently gained traction in the research community, with much of the focus primarily concentrated on securing the operating systems and virtual machines...
Wenchao Zhou, Micah Sherr, William R. Marczak, Zhu...