Distributed computing unites autonomous processors over a network to solve tasks that exceed the capacity of any single machine. Systems software in this domain spans operating systems, middleware, ...

Cloud computing has been booming in recent years, driven by the virtualization of hardware and software to meet the demand for more robust and scalable Internet services 1. Cloud computing is a ...

The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...