On death, taxes, and the convergence of peer-to-peer and grid computing (2003)
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Ian Foster
,
Adriana Iamnitchi
| Venue: | In 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS’03 |
| Citations: | 110 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Foster03ondeath,,
author = {Ian Foster and Adriana Iamnitchi},
title = {On death, taxes, and the convergence of peer-to-peer and grid computing},
booktitle = {In 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS’03},
year = {2003},
pages = {118--128}
}
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Abstract
It has been reported [26] that life holds but two certainties, death and taxes. And indeed, despite much effort devoted to circumventing both phenomena, it does appear that any society—and in the context of this paper, any large-scale distributed system—must address both death (failure) and the establishment and maintenance of infrastructure (which we assert is a major motivation for taxes, so as to
