Todays scientific applications have huge data requirements, and these requirements continue to increase drastically every year. Furthermore, these data are generally accessed by many users from all across the country, or ...

A comnon method of enforcing software license terms is for a program to contact another program, called a license server, and ask for permission to run. This study attempts to bypass these license checks in a commercial ...

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Migratory File Service (MFS), a system designed to exploit semantic knowledge of workloads and user expectations to improve performance and handle failures effectively ...

A system has been developed that automatically extracts the iris region from photographs, computes the iris color in CIE u 'v ' diagram color space, and corrects the color based on a standard calibration target. This system ...

This paper addresses the issue of identifiing buffer overrun vulnerabilities by statically analyzing C source code. We demonstrate a scalable analysis based on modeling C string manipulations as a linear program. We also ...

The explosive growth of Internet traffic and the increasing complexity of the functions peformed by network nodes have given rise to a new breed of programmable microprocessors called network processors. A major hurdle ...

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of D-GRAID, a gracefully-degrading and quickly-recovering RAID storage array. D-GRAID ensures that most files within the file system remain available even when an ...

Sharing data between widely distributed intrusion detection systems offers the possibility of significant improvements in speed and accuracy over systems operating in isolation. In this paper, we describe and evaluate ...

The drastic increase in the data requirements of scientific applications combined with an increasing trend towards collaborative research has resulted in the need to transfer large amounts of data among the participating ...

Distributed systems present new challenges to resource management, which cannot be met by conventional systems that employ relatively static resource models and centralized allocators. Matchmaking paradigms based on ...