Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
The need to provide performance guarantee in high performance servers has long been neglected. Providing performance guarantee in current and future servers is difficult because ...
As the number of processors in today’s high performance computers continues to grow, the mean-time-to-failure of these computers are becoming significantly shorter than the exe...
Zizhong Chen, Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Julie...
Computational Grids potentially offer cheap large-scale high-performance systems, but are a very challenging architecture, being heterogeneous, shared and hierarchical. Rather tha...
Abdallah Al Zain, Philip W. Trinder, Hans-Wolfgang...
In many applications of wireless sensor networks (WSN), sensors are deployed un-tethered in hostile environments. For locationaware WSN applications, it is essential to ensure tha...