A new RAID-x (redundant array of inexpensive disks at level x) architecture is presented for distributed I/O processing on a serverless cluster of computers. The RAID-x architectu...
Improvements in optical technology will enable the constructionof high bandwidth, low latencyswitching networks. These networks have many applications in massively parallel proces...
The appearance of 64-bit processors allows a new approach to microkernel desagn From our experience with a message passang microkernel MESHIX, we discovered that a multi-address s...
Kevin Murray, Tim Wilkinson, Tom Stiemerling, Paul...
Scalable busy-wait synchronization algorithms are essential for achieving good parallel program performance on large scale multiprocessors. Such algorithms include mutual exclusio...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, ...
Resource discovery is an important process for finding suitable nodes that satisfy application requirements in large loosely-coupled distributed systems. Besides inter-node heter...