Hacker's Delight.(Book Review)
Henry S. Warren, Jr., Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Boston, MA
(2003). 336 pp. (ISBN 0-201-91465-4).
At some point during his more than four decades with IBM, Hank
Warren began to compile a book . . .
Management of application complexes in multitier clustered
systems. (Technical forum).
Clustered systems are often used as a platform for running
different services that compete for the same server resources. For
e-commerce applications, these services are provided by . . .
Dealing with ghosts: managing the user experience of autonomic
computing.
Autonomic computing systems manage themselves, taking self-directed
action when deemed appropriate and making choices about what needs to be
done and how exactly to do it. Choices are made and . . .
Autonomic personal computing.
Autonomic personal computing is defined here as personal computing
on autonomic computing systems. It shares the goals of personal
computing--responsiveness, ease of use, and flexibility--with . . .
Autonomic service deployment in networks.
A network manager faces a daunting task today when designing,
configuring, and provisioning a complete service for customers, and when
trying to obtain the most use of the specific capabilities . . .
Managing Web server performance with AutoTune agents.
The increasing complexity of computing systems and applications
demands a correspondingly larger human effort for system configuration
and performance management. This manual effort can be . . .
Comparing autonomic and proactive computing.
Autonomic (1) and proactive (2) computing both provide solutions to
issues that limit the growth of today's computing systems. In the
1990s, the ubiquitous computing vision (3) extended what has . . .
Toward a new landscape of systems management in an autonomic
computing environment.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that
created them.
--Albert Einstein
The information technology (IT) infrastructure that supports
business systems today continues to . . .
Security in an autonomic computing environment.
As computing systems have become more complex, more interconnected,
and more tightly woven into the fabric of our lives, the resources
involved in managing and administering them have grown at a . . .
LEO: an autonomic query optimizer for DB2.(LEarning
Optimizer)
The remarkable growth of the relational database management systems
(DBMS) industry over the last two decades can be largely attributed to
the standardization of its Structured Query Language, SQL. . . .
Competitive algorithms for the dynamic selection of component
implementations.
Many applications are being built by integrating multiple
distributed components in order to implement a particular business
function. The increasing popularity of component programming . . .
Clockwork: a new movement in autonomic systems.
Large computing systems, especially those running time-varying
workloads, are difficult to keep tuned. Dozens of interacting parameters
may need to be understood and adjusted. Even if a system is . . .
Enabling autonomic behavior in systems software with hot
swapping.
As computer systems become more complex, they become more difficult
to administer properly. Special training is needed to configure and
maintain modern systems, and this complexity continues to . . .
A system model for dynamically reconfigurable software.
Reconfigurability provides the foundation upon which autonomic
systems can adapt to their changing environments, which is useful for
dynamically optimizing system functionality based upon the . . .
Affect and machine design: lessons for the development of
autonomous machines.
Animals and humans have two distinct kinds of information
processing mechanisms: affect and cognition. Cognitive
mechanisms--mechanisms that interpret, understand, reflect upon, and
remember things . . .
Dynamic reconfiguration: basic building blocks for autonomic
computing on IBM pSeries servers.
One of the cardinal features of an autonomic component in an
information technology (IT) infrastructure is the ability of the
component to adapt itself smoothly to changes in its . . .
SRIRAM: a scalable resilient autonomic mesh.(Scalable Replication
Infrastructure using Resilient Autonomic Meshes)
Most networked applications are currently implemented using a
client/server computing model. A server with a well-known address hosts
the application, while different clients access it over the . . .
The dawning of the autonomic computing era.
On March 8, 2001, Paul Horn, IBM Senior Vice President and Director
of Research, presented the theme and importance of autonomic computing
to the National Academy of Engineering at Harvard . . .
Preface.
The goal of autonomic computing is to reduce the increasing
complexity of managing large computing systems. As computing systems
evolve, they are subject to the effect of continuous growth in . . .
Selling interrupt rights: a way to control unwanted e-mail and
telephone calls. (Technical forum).
Among the great irritations of modern life are unwanted e-mail
(often referred to as "spam" (1)) and unwanted telephone
calls. In this article I present an approach to controlling . . .
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