Design and Implementation of an Administration System for Distributed Web Server: The explosive growth of the World Wide Web (WWW for short) [1] has raised great concerns regarding many challenges - performance, scalability and availability of the Web system.

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Integrating a Command Shell Into a Web Browser: The transition from command-line interfaces to graphical interfaces has resulted in programs that are easier to learn and use, but harder to automate and reuse. Another transition is now underway, to HTML interfaces hosted by a web browser

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Virtual Services: A New Abstraction for Server Consolidation: Modern server operating systems (OS's) do not address the issue of interference between competing applications. This deficiency is a major road-block for Internet and Application Service Providers who want to multiplex server resources among their business clients. To insulate applications from each other, we introduce Virtual Services (VSs).

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The Case for Compressed Caching in Virtual Memory Systems: Compressed caching uses part of the available RAM to hold pages in compressed form, effectively adding a new level to the virtual memory hierarchy. This level attempts to bridge the huge performance gap between normal (uncompressed) RAM and disk.

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A scalable and explicit event delivery mechanism for UNIX: UNIX supports non-blocking operation for read() and write(), but a naive use of this mechanism, in which the application polls each file descriptor to see if it might be usable, leads to excessive overheads.

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Evaluating Windows NT Terminal Server Performance: With Microsoft's introduction of Windows NT, Terminal Server Edition (TSE), the Windows platform has acquired the multi-user, remote access capabilities that have been available for Unix since X-Windows appeared a decade ago. Microsoft seems to have awoken to the possibility that ``thin-client'' computing is a viable and even desirable alternative to their vision of ``Windows on Every Desktop''.

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Track-aligned Extents: Matching Access Patterns to Disk Drive Characteristics: Rotating media has come full circle, so to speak. The first uses of disks in the 1950s ignored the effects of geometry in the interest of achieving a working system. Later, algorithms were developed that paid attention to disk geometry in order to improve disk efficiency

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Prefetching Hyperlinks: This paper develops a new method for prefetching Web pages into the client cache. Clients send reference information to Web servers, which aggregate the reference information in near-real-time and then disperse the aggregated information to all clients, piggybacked on GET responses.

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Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks: We present Trickle, an algorithm for propagating and maintaining code updates in wireless sensor networks. Borrowing techniques from the epidemic/gossip, scalable multicast, and wireless broadcast literature, Trickle uses a ``polite gossip'' policy, where motes periodically broadcast a code summary to local neighbors but stay quiet if they have recently heard a summary identical to theirs.

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Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming Media Workload: The increasing availability of continuous-media data is provoking a significant change in Internet workloads. For example, video from news, sports, and entertainment sites, and audio from Internet broadcast radio, telephony, and peer-to-peer networks, are becoming commonplace. Compared with traditional Web workloads, multimedia objects can require significantly more storage and transmission bandwidth

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