All but the most briefly used systems must evolve as their mission and roles change over time. Evolution in the context of large distributed systems is extraordinarily complex bec...
Cluster Storage Systems where storage devices are distributed across a large number of nodes are able to reduce the I/O bottleneck problems present in most centralized storage sys...
We describe the use of component architecture in an area to which this approach has not been classically applied, the area of cluster system software. By "cluster system soft...
Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Ewing L. Lusk, Ralf ...
A key challenge in supporting data-driven scientific applications is the storage and management of input and output data in a distributed environment. In this paper, we describe a...
Stephen Langella, Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, T...
P2P systems represent a large portion of the Internet traffic which makes the data discovery of great importance to the user and the broad Internet community. Hence, the power of ...