Monitoring and management operations that query nodes based on their availability can be extremely useful in a variety of largescale distributed systems containing hundreds to thou...
This paper presents cooperative prefetching and caching — the use of network-wide global resources (memories, CPUs, and disks) to support prefetching and caching in the presence...
Geoffrey M. Voelker, Eric J. Anderson, Tracy Kimbr...
Abstract. A major problem considering parallel computing is maintaining memory consistency and coherency, and ensuring ownership and access rights. These problems mainly arise from...
As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems present some challenging con guration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to comp...
Joseph A. Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, Ka...
Idle workstations in a network represent a significant computing potential. In particular, their processing power can be used by parallel-distributed programs that treat the netwo...
Michael J. Feeley, Brian N. Bershad, Jeffrey S. Ch...