Existing Grid workflow tools assume that individual components either communicate by passing files from one application to another, or are explicitly linked using interprocess com...
Many distributed systems manage some form of long-lived data, such as files or data bases. The performance and fault-tolerance of such systems may be enhanced if the repositories ...
— The concept of Remote Procedure Call (RPC) was proposed more than 30 years ago. Although various RPC systems have been studied and implemented, the existing RPC systems lack ma...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing systems are characterized by highly replicated content distributed among nodes with enormous aggregate resources for storage and communication. Th...
Dan Dumitriu, Edward W. Knightly, Aleksandar Kuzma...
– In contrast to a typical single source of data updates in Internet applications, data files in a networked information system are often distributed, replicated, accessed and up...