Recent researches have highlighted the importance of developing a network with distributed problem solving abilities thus enhancing reliability with equal share of network resourc...
This paper presents Cluster-Aware Remote Disks (CARDs), a Single System I/O architecture for cluster computing. CARDs virtualize accesses to remote cluster disks over a System Are...
A cluster of PCs can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks; such a collection can be operated by proper so as to provide the abstraction of a single, larger block de...
Alessandro Di Marco, Giovanni Chiola, Giuseppe Cia...
We consider the use of a cluster of PC servers for Application Service Providers where applications and databases must remain autonomous. We use data replication to improve data av...