Operating system (OS) virtualization can provide a number of important benefits, including transparent migration of applications, server consolidation, online OS maintenance, and...
Usenet is a popular distributed messaging and file sharing service: servers in Usenet flood articles over an overlay network to fully replicate articles across all servers. Howeve...
Recently there has been renewed interest in building reliable servers that support continuous application operation. Besides maintaining system state consistent after a failure, o...
A common approach to benchmarking a server is to measure its behavior under load from a workload generator. Often a set of such experiments is required-perhaps with different serv...
Piyush Shivam, Varun Marupadi, Jeffrey S. Chase, T...
A comfort zone is a tested region of a system’s input space within which it has been observed to behave acceptably. To keep systems operating within their comfort zones, we advo...