We present HSAN - a hybrid storage area network, which uses both in-band (like NFS [13]) and out-of-band virtualization (like SAN FS [10]) access models. HSAN uses hybrid servers ...
Long-running, heavily multi-threaded, Java server applications make stringent demands of garbage collector (GC) performance. Synchronisation of all application threads before garb...
This paper describes the implementation of a thin user-level layer to be installed on Grid resources. The layer fits in the Minimum intrusion Grid design by imposing as few requi...
Despite the fact that EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) is a widely used technology, research in the area of performance modelling of EJB application servers is quite sparse. This paper...
We present the initial results from our evaluation study on the performance implications of anycast in DNS, using four anycast servers deployed at top-level DNS zones. Our results...