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The Ethernet Approach to Grid Computing
Overview Despite many competitors, Ethernet became the dominant protocol for local area networking due to its simplicity, robustness, and efficiency in wide variety of conditions and technologies. Reflecting on the current frailty of much software, grid and otherwise, this paper proposes that the Ethernet approach to resource sharing is an effective and reliable technique for combining coarse-grained software when failures are common and poorly detailed. This approach involves placing several simple but important responsibilities on client software to acquire shared resources conservatively, to back off during periods of failure, and to inform competing clients when resources are in contention.
| Publisher | The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | November 2004 | Downloads | 3 |
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