WebOS: Operating system services for wide area applications

Proceedings - 7th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, HPDC 1998

Volumn 1998-July, Issue , 1998, Pages 52-63

  Vahdat, A ^a   Anderson, T ^b   Dahlin, M ^c   Belani, E ^a   Culler, D ^a   Eastham, P ^a   Yoshikawa, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; STORAGE AS A SERVICE (STAAS);

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; DYNAMIC REPLICATION; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PERSISTENT STORAGE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM RESOURCES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84959004252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.1998.709956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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