Web-services are supported by a complex software infrastructure that must provide a robust service to the client applications. This practical experience report presents a practica...
Several techniques for database replication using group communication have recently been proposed, namely, the Database State Machine, PostgresR, and the NODO protocol. Although a...
Bulk data movement occurs commonly in server workloads and their performance is rather poor on today’s microprocessors. We propose the use of small dedicated copy engines, and p...
Li Zhao, Ravi R. Iyer, Srihari Makineni, Laxmi N. ...
This paper presents three contributions to research on middleware load balancing. First, it describes the design of Cygnus, which is an extensible open-source middleware framework...
Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Law...
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...