—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
We investigate issues related to the probe complexity of quorum systems and their implementation in a dynamic environment. Our contribution is twofold. The first regards the algo...
Nowadays workflow systems are widely deployed around the world, especially within large international corporations. Thus the performance evaluation of these workflow systems becom...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
Abstract— Cycle-harvesting software on commodity computers is available from a number of companies and a significant part of the Grid computing landscape. However, creating comm...