MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
The Grid computing vision promises to provide the needed platform for a new and more demanding range of applications. For this promise to become true, a number of hurdles, includin...
Alexandru Iosup, Catalin Dumitrescu, Dick H. J. Ep...
Virtual machines are widely accepted as a promising basis for building secure systems. However, while virtual machines offer effective mechanisms to create isolated environments, ...
The AVICENNA VIRTUAL CAMPUS project, championed by UNESCO, has the aim to accelerate the adoption and use of ICT-assisted Open Distance Learning (ODL) in the Euro-Med region. As a...
C. Rodrigo, J. Hidalgo, M. L. Cacheiro, A. Del Olm...
This paper attempts to address the complexity of system administration by making the labor of applying software updates independent of the number of computers on which the softwar...
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, David Brumley, Ramesh ...