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COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS has been adopt-e d b y m a n y industries to provide a better understanding of countless applications. New and unusual uses for the technology continue to appear, as evi-denced by our cover story on archaeological analysis (page 5). While the extent of an ancient municipal water system in Syria was unearthed by excavation, the clever-ness of the hydraulic engineers ...

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Opinion Polls can be used as a means to reach weak agreement, an idea introduced by the LOCKSS system [1]. In this paper, we investigate a set of protocols that achieve data resilience for the long-term using a peer-to-peer network, where mutually untrusted peers are loosely organized. Peers use Opinion Polls to heal corrupted copies of data items instead of conventional methods that use consen...

A common challenge in fully distributed storage systems is the management of access rights to stored files. PACISSO is an efficient and scalable solution for distributed access control, applicable to systems consisting entirely of untrusted nodes. We give both theoretical bounds on the cost of basic operations, and also include end-to-end measurements based on an implementation within a complet...

This paper addresses the problem of dynamic scheduling of data-intensive multiprocessor jobs. Each job requires some number of CPUs and some amount of data that needs to be downloaded into a local storage space before starting the job. The completion of each job brings some benefit (utility) to the system, and the goal is to find the optimal scheduling policy that maximizes the average utility ...

Competitive pressures and the speed of technological development have reduced the length of the typical product lifecycle in many markets to a matter of months. In addition to predicting sales of mature products, forecasting effectively in such markets entails addressing the transitional phases of a product’s life—the periods after introduction and prior to phase-out. Unfortunately, the sales p...

The notion of procuring computer services from a utility, much the way we get water and electricity and phone service, is not new. The idea at the center of the public utility trend in computer services is to allow firms to focus less on administering and supporting their information technology and more on running their business. Supernets and their implementation as hardware devices (snHubs) a...