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Literature:

Here are some papers to read and some presentation slides that may be of interest to you - enjoy!

WHITE PAPERS:

Straddled Clients and Adaptive Remote Procedure Calls - describes a client-server software architecture where the client sends a cloned copy of itself to the server, dynamically adjusting the load balance between the client and server hardware. Presented at the WMCSA-2K. (32k pdf)

Converting Single, Concurrent Server Software for a Cluster Server Architecture - describes MSI, a Manifold Server Interface that converts a concurrent single server process into a distributed software package that is suitable for a cluster server architecture. Presented at OPODIS'01. (74k pdf)
Converting Single, Concurrent Server Software for a Cluster Server Architecture - long version. (79k pdf)

Research Summary Report to the CEIT - This research investigates the effectiveness of an Application Program Interface (API) as a low resource utilization (lightweight) replacement for an ORB-based system, a reduced cost and complexity approach to high availability support on a multicomputer architecture. August, 2002. (18k pdf)

Parallel Adaptive Mobile Web Clipping - describes how to exploit the inherent parallelism in widely used markup languages to achieve high performance clipping service on a parallel processor. Presented at MSWiM'03. (39k pdf)
Parallel Adaptive Mobile Web Clipping - long version. (332k pdf)


PRESENTATION SLIDES:

Agent Modeling using Static and Dynamic DISC Behavioral Profiles - describes how to model and predict the performance of a team of human workers - Scheduled for presentation at the HCS 2005/Cancelled. (138k pdf).

Linux Cluster Architecture - describes how to build your own cluster server. Presented to several local LUGs, or Linux User's Groups (391k pdf).

Converting Single, Concurrent Server Software for a Cluster Server Architecture - describes the MSI, Manifold Server Interface distributed system conversion assist software. (106k pdf).