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VAXClusters: A Closely-coupled Distributed System

by Nancy P. Kronenberg, Henry M. Levy, William D. Strecker - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1986
"... Digital Equipment Corporation A VAXcluster is a highly available and extensible configuration of VAX computers that operate as a single system. To achieve performance in a multicomputer environment, a new communications architecture, communications hardware, and distributed software were jointly des ..."
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Digital Equipment Corporation A VAXcluster is a highly available and extensible configuration of VAX computers that operate as a single system. To achieve performance in a multicomputer environment, a new communications architecture, communications hardware, and distributed software were jointly

Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges

by M. Satyanarayanan - IEEE Personal Communications , 2001
"... This paper discusses the challenges in computer systems research posed by the emerging field of pervasive computing. It first examines the relationship of this new field to its predecessors: distributed systems and mobile computing. It then identifies four new research thrusts: effective use of smar ..."
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of smart spaces, invisibility, localized scalability, and masking uneven conditioning. Next, it sketches a couple of hypothetical pervasive computing scenarios, and uses them to identify key capabilities missing from today's systems. The paper closes with a discussion of the research necessary

93 CI Bus Arbitration Performance in a VAXcluster System

by Nancy P. Kronenberg, Henry M. Levy, William D. Strecker, Richard J. Merewood, Darrell J. Duffy, William E. Snaman, David W. 'thiel, Andrew C. Goldstein, Michael S. Fox, John A. Ywoskus, Edward E. Balkovich, Prashant Bhabhalia, William R. Dunnington, Thomas F. Weyant, Daeil Park, Rekha D. Von Ehren, Tzyh-jong Wang, Nii N. Quaynor, Xi-ren Cao, Nii N. Quaynor, O C. Colon Osorio, Richard W. Beane
"... VAXcluster systems are closely coupled configu-rations of VAX CPUs and storage devices. The VAX ..."
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VAXcluster systems are closely coupled configu-rations of VAX CPUs and storage devices. The VAX

A Study of Influential Factors on Effective CloselyCoupled Collaboration based on Single User Perceptions

by Oliver Otto, Dave Roberts, Robin Wolff - In Proceedings of The 8th Annual International Workshop on Presence , 2005
"... The need for collaboration and cooperation across a distance is becoming equal to that between a co-located team. This means that cooperative working must be supported by systems that allow natural social human communication and interaction. A goal of tele-collaboration is to reproduce the effective ..."
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the effectiveness of co-located teamwork across a distributed team. Although many of today’s systems support collaboration, only a subset can be said to support cooperation and no established solution comes close to reproducing the flexibility and efficiency of a face-to-face meeting. Previous work has demonstrated

Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon,

by V Ramanathan , G Carmichael - Nat. Geosci., , 2008
"... Figure 1: Global distribution of BC sources and radiative forcing. a, BC emission strength in tons per year from a study by Bond et al. Full size image (42 KB) Review Nature Geoscience 1, 221 -227 (2008 Black carbon in soot is the dominant absorber of visible solar radiation in the atmosphere. Ant ..."
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Figure 1: Global distribution of BC sources and radiative forcing. a, BC emission strength in tons per year from a study by Bond et al. Full size image (42 KB) Review Nature Geoscience 1, 221 -227 (2008 Black carbon in soot is the dominant absorber of visible solar radiation in the atmosphere

Techniques for reducing consistency-related communication in distributed shared memory systems

by John B. Carter, John K. Bennett, Willy Zwaenepoel - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. Toappear
"... Distributed shared memory (DSM) is a software abstraction of shared memory on a distributed memory machine. One of the key problems in building an e cient DSM system is to reduce the amount ofcommunication needed to keep the distributed memories consistent. In this paper we presentfour techniques fo ..."
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Distributed shared memory (DSM) is a software abstraction of shared memory on a distributed memory machine. One of the key problems in building an e cient DSM system is to reduce the amount ofcommunication needed to keep the distributed memories consistent. In this paper we presentfour techniques

GEM - A Generalised Event Monitoring Language for Distributed Systems

by Masoud Mansouri-samani, Morris Sloman, Morris Sloman - IEE/IOP/BCS Distributed Systems Engineering Journal , 1997
"... Event based monitoring is critical for managing and debugging networks and distributed systems. This paper presents GEM -- an interpreted Generalised Event Monitoring language. It allows high level, abstract events to be specified in terms of combinations of lower level events from different nodes i ..."
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in a loosely coupled distributed system. Event monitoring components can thus be distributed within the system to perform filtering, correlation and notification of events close to where they occur and thus reduce network traffic. GEM is a declarative rule based language in which the notion of real

Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.

by Manuel Castells , Anthony Giddens , Alain Touraine , Anthony Smith , Benjamin Barber , Peter Hall , Roger-Pol Droit , Sophie Watson , Frank Webster , Krishan Kumar , David Lyon , Craig Calhoun , Jeffrey Henderson , Ramon Ramos , Jose E Rodrigues-Ibanez , Jose F Tezanos , Mary Kaldor , Stephen Jones , Christopher Freeman - The British Journal of Sociology , 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world

Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

by Systems C. Special-purpose
"... (MMOGs) can include millions of concurrent players spread across the world and interacting with each other within a single session. Faced with high resource demand variability and with misfit resource renting policies, the current industry practice is to over-provision for each game tens of self-own ..."
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(MMOGs) can include millions of concurrent players spread across the world and interacting with each other within a single session. Faced with high resource demand variability and with misfit resource renting policies, the current industry practice is to over-provision for each game tens of self

Distributed

by Waqaas Munawar, Olaf L, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle, Rwth Aachen
"... Abstract—Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are deployed for long periods of time, during which a need often arises to dynamically reprogram or retask them. An array of solutions has been proposed to this effect, ranging from full image replacement to virtual machines. However, the capabilities of Tiny ..."
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Abstract—Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are deployed for long periods of time, during which a need often arises to dynamically reprogram or retask them. An array of solutions has been proposed to this effect, ranging from full image replacement to virtual machines. However, the capabilities
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