FTP Mirror Tracker [Note 1] is a software package (written in Perl and C++) that enables transparent, user-controlled redirection to the nearest anonymous FTP mirror sites that are exact replicas of ...

We know that many of you have been impacted by the economic downturn and, due to the recent tragedy, are reluctant to travel. To encourage your attendance at ALS '01, the USENIX Association and the ...

The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild ...

Complex systems are hard to understand and visualize. The causes for this problem are due to the specific data not being available or the inability to correlate and present the data in a meaningful ...

As computers permeate all aspects of our lives, a wide range of computer systems must achieve high dependability, including availability, reliability, and security. Unfortunately, few current computer ...

Improper evaluation of systems papers may result in the loss or delay in publication of possibly important research. This paper posits that systems research papers may be evaluated in one or more of ...

for about fifteen years, DNS is undergoing its inevitable rototilling, and BIND with it. It's time for the world to learn what to expect from BIND-9 and EDNS. Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is an ...

Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce system availability. Previous approaches for surviving software failures suffer from several limitations, ...