As computer systems continue to grow in power and access more networked content and services, we believe there will be an increasing need to provide more user-centric systems that...
Management of virtual machines (VMs) on a large scale remains a significant challenge today. We lack general and vendor-independent quantitative criteria/metrics by which to desc...
Usher is a virtual machine management system designed to impose few constraints upon the computing environment under its management. Usher enables administrators to choose how the...
Support for distributed application management in large-scale networked environments remains in its early stages. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application ...
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Ryan Braud, Darren Dao, Nikol...
Operating system lockup errors can render a computer unusable by preventing the execution other programs. Watchdog timers can be used to recover from a lockup by resetting the pro...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Roy H. Campb...