Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon. com, one of
the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant …

In recent years, grid technology has emerged as an important tool for solving compute‐
intensive problems within the scientific community and in industry. To further the …

This paper presents a unified framework for object detection, segmentation, and
classification using regions. Region features are appealing in this context because:(1) they …

Several distributed peer-to-peer applications require weakly-consistent knowledge of
process group membership information at all participating processes. SWIM is a generic …

With the immense growth of internet and its users, Cloud computing, with its incredible
possibilities in ease, Quality of service and on-interest administrations, has turned into a …

Besides the dynamic nature of grids, which means that resources may enter and leave the
grid at any time, in many cases outside of the applications' control, grid resources are also …

The running times of many computational science applications, such as protein-folding
using ab initio methods, are much longer than the mean-time-to-failure of high-performance …

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JANUARY 2015 | VOL. 58 | NO. 1 review articles DOI:10.1145/2678280 …

Failure detection (FD) is an important issue for supporting dependability in distributed
healthcare systems to guarantee continuous, safe, secure, and dependable operation, and …

The Internet and World Wide Web have revolutionized access to information. Users now
store information across multiple platforms from personal computers to smartphones and …