Caching introduces the overhead and complexity of ensuring consistency, reducing some of
its performance benefits. In a distributed system, caching must deal with the additional …

We analyzed the user-level file access patterns and caching behavior of the Sprite
distributed file system. The first part of our analysis repeated a study done in 1985 of the …

This paper describes the design and implementation of the Harp file system. Harp is a
replicated Unix file system accessible via the VFS interface. It provides highly available and …

Synchronized clocks areinteresting because they can be used to improve performance of a
distributed system by reducing communication. Since they have only recently become a …

US7185359B2 - Authentication and authorization across autonomous network systems -
Google Patents US7185359B2 - Authentication and authorization across autonomous …

Many distributed systems for wide-area networks can be built conveniently, and operate
efficiently and correctly, using a weak consistency group communication mechanism. This …

(51) Int. Cl. computer system. A source object of a source replica deter G06F 9/46(2006.01)
mines that it has an urgent change to propagate through the (52) US Cl T19/313; 717/170 …

We present a precise specification of the primary-backup approach. Then, for a variety of
different failure models we prove lower bounds on the degree of replication, failover time …

Echo is an ambitious distributed file system. It was designed around a truly global name
space. It uses a coherent caching algorithm. It is fault tolerant. And it is real—it was the …

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