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On Achieving Software Diversity for Improved Network Security Using Distributed Coloring Algorithms
White Papers The paper presents several distributed algorithms for the assignment of distinct software packages to individual systems and analyzes their performance. It is widely believed that diversity in operating systems, software packages, and hardware...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
A Distributed Cyber-Based Information Distillation and Control Architecture for Wireless Healthcare Systems
White Papers This paper proposes a distributed, and effective heterogeneous architecture to make up such a gap, emphasizing on patient information retrieval, real-time monitoring and instant re-actions. Cyber-physical space, characterized by the seamless...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
HPC Distributed Storage Cluster - IBRIX Architecture and Installation
White Papers As cluster computing has become a critical utility for both the commercial enterprise and academia, maximizing the storage subsystem performance has become a fundamental requirement. This paper provides guidance for a customer that is considering...
[October 30, 2009, 2:18]
Communication-Efficient Distributed Monitoring of Thresholded Counts
White Papers Such monitoring applications are inherently continuous and distributed, and must be designed to minimize the communication overhead that they introduce. In this context this paper introduces and studies a fundamental class of problems called...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Virtualisation driving grid growth
News Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. Analyst house Quocirca's latest Insight report into grid computing...
[April 21, 2005, 16:20]
Microsoft Developers Conference: MS pledges to Internet-enable all products
News The announcements came at the Professional Developers Conference attended by 3,500 visitors in Long Beach, California. Paul Maritz, group VP for applications and platforms, said Microsoft will spend over $1 billion in its 1997 fiscal year on...
[November 6, 1996, 8:44]
US Report: Symantec launches Y2K product
News Norton 2000, announced on Wednesday, will be available in a corporate version to ship this month and a retail version for consumer users to ship in September. Pricing was not announced.
[July 17, 1998, 7:04]
The Gridbus Toolkit for Service Oriented Grid and Utility Computing: An Overview and Status Report
White Papers Grids aim at exploiting synergies that result from cooperation of autonomous distributed entities. The synergies that result from grid cooperation include the sharing, exchange, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
DHT-Based Security Infrastructure for Trusted Internet and Grid Computing
White Papers A distributed security infrastructure is designed with self-defence capabilities to secure networked resources in Grids and internet applications. This paper reports new developments in fuzzy trust management, game-theoretic Grid models, security...
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
Latency Equalization: A Programmable Routing Service Primitive
White Papers Today the Internet is the primary medium for deploying new real time services such as gaming and distributed online live music concerts. However, real-time interactive services such as online gaming and distributed live music performance require...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
Reliable and Efficient Programming Abstractions for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers It is currently difficult to build practical and reliable programming systems out of distributed and resource-constrained sensor devices. The state of the art in today's sensornet programming is centered around a component-based language called...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
SLA-Based Cooperative Superscheduling Algorithms for Computational Grids
White Papers Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid sites via grid schedulers such as Resource brokers and workflow engines. The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Resource Virtualization in Real-Time CORBA Middleware
White Papers Middleware for parallel and distributed systems is designed to virtualize computation and communication resources so that a more abstract and consistent view of those resources is presented to the applications that use them.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Minimizing Collateral Damage by Proactive Surge Protection
White Papers Existing mechanisms for defending against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are generally reactive in nature. However, the onset of large-scale bandwidth-based attacks can occur suddenly, potentially knocking out substantial parts of a...
[May 29, 2009, 1:19]
Single Sign-On for Java Web Start Applications Using MyProxy
White Papers Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it may be difficult to modify a particular legacy application to utilize...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
An Overview of Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services and Grid Computing
White Papers Web services and a service-oriented style of architecture are widely seen as the basis for a new generation of distributed applications and system management tools. This paper introduces the key concepts, relationships and benefits of these two...
[March 3, 2006, 0:01]
Context-Specific Middleware Specialization Techniques for Optimizing Software Product-Line Architectures
White Papers Product-Line Architectures (PLA)s are an emerging paradigm for developing software families for Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems by customizing reusable artifacts, rather than handcrafting software from scratch.
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Evaluating the Deployment of a Mobile Technology in a Hospital Ward
White Papers Since health care teams are often distributed across time and location, information sharing is crucial for effective patient care. Studying the use of a mobile information technology in a local hospital ward at two months and eleven months after...
[November 26, 2009, 23:00]
Akamai defends web apps in the cloud
News It blocks only the best-known types of attacks from entering datacentres, using the scalability of Akamai's computing resources to reduce the amount of traffic that a business's internal security systems must filter.
[December 15, 2009, 16:20]
New worldwide high-speed network on the rise
News The DataGrid project will provide scientists around the world with flexible access to unprecedented levels of computing resources and will initiate a new era of e-science," CERN states. With all they hype surrounding dot-com startups, it's easy to...
[January 17, 2001, 8:20]
