In this work we present the Internet Backplane Protocol (IBP), a middleware created to allow the sharing of storage resources, implemented as part of the network fabric. IBP allow...
Alessandro Bassi, Micah Beck, Graham E. Fagg, Terr...
—Switch-trees are peer-to-peer algorithms for building and improving end-host multicast trees. Nodes switch parents to reduce tree cost or lower source-member latency. A node swi...
Advances in packaging and interface technologies have made it possible for software components to be shared across the network through encapsulation and offered as network service...
We describe the communication infrastructure (CI) for our fault-tolerant cluster middleware, which is optimized for two classes of communication: for the applications and for the ...
Ming Li, Wenchao Tao, Daniel Goldberg, Israel Hsu,...
Supermon is a flexible set of tools for high speed, scalable cluster monitoring. Node behavior can be monitored much faster than with other commonly used methods (e.g., rstatd). ...