The idealdistributed file system wouldprovide all its userswith coherent,shared access tothe samesetoffiles,yetwould be arbitrarily scalable to provide more storage space and hi...
Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Timothy Mann, Edward K. ...
The growth in complexity of modern systems makes it increasingly difficult to extract high-performance. The software stacks for such systems typically consist of multiple layers a...
Garbage collection can be a performance bottleneck in large distributed, multi-threaded applications. Applications may produce millions of objects during their lifetimes and may i...
Language-basedextensible systems, such as Java Virtual Machines and SPIN, use type safety to provide memory safety in a single address space. By using software to provide safety, ...
Godmar Back, Patrick Tullmann, Leigh Stoller, Wils...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...