Attainment of software performance assurances in open, largely unpredictable environments has recently become an important focus for real-time research. Unlike closed embedded sys...
Ronghua Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
A central problem in executing performance critical parallel and distributed applications on shared networks is the selection of computation nodes and communication paths for exec...
Speculator provides Linux kernel support for speculative execution. It allows multiple processes to share speculative state by tracking causal dependencies propagated through inte...
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...
Volunteer-based grid computing resources are characteristically volatile and frequently become unavailable due to the autonomy that owners maintain over them. This resource volati...