Manageability, availability and performance in porcupine: A highly scalable, cluster-based mail service

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1-15

  Saito, Yasushi ^a   Bershad, Brian N ^a   Levy, Henry M ^a  

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EID: 0042853284     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/319344.319152     Document Type: Article

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