As we enter the era of petascale computing, system architects must plan for machines composed of tens or even hundreds of thousands of processors. Although fully connected network...
Shoaib Kamil, Ali Pinar, Daniel Gunter, Michael Li...
Large-scale online communities need to manage the tension between critical mass and information overload. Slashdot is a news and discussion site that has used comment rating to al...
Network-centricity is a concept under consideration as a useful paradigm for complex organizational operations, combining the strengths of bureaucracy with the innovative possibil...
Cache groups are a powerful concept for database caching, which is used to relieve the backend database load and to keep referenced data close to the application programs at the &q...
Content-based publish/subscribe systems allow matching the content of events with predicates in the subscriptions. However, most existing systems only allow a limited set of opera...