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RSS rioHierarchical Resource Management and Application Control in Grid Environments
White Paper Several works on grid computing have been proposed in the last years. However, most work presented in the literature, including available software, can not deal properly with several issues such as loss of data, resubmission of faulty jobs, network... [03 Jul 2008]
Credit Union Relies on Software From the SAP for Banking Solution Portfolio and SAP NetWeaver Platform to Integrate 130 Cooperatives
White Paper Since its inception 10 years ago in Casca, Rio Grande do Sul, Unicred has rapidly evolved from a single small cooperative to a full-service credit union for the healthcare sector, operating 130 cooperatives throughout all of Brazil with national... [08 Feb 2008]
Survivable Composite-Link IP Network Design With OSPF Routing
White Paper OSPF, or Open Shortest Path First, is a commonly used interior gateway protocol. Given a network topology, a set of link types to be deployed, each having a different capacity, and predicted traffic demands, the problem considered in this paper is... [08 Jan 2008]
Dealing With Short TCP Flows: A Survey of Mice in Elephant Shoes
White Paper The proposals range from T/TCP in 1992 to RIO-PS in 2001. Short web transfers that dominate the Internet suffer from TCP's inadequate provisioning for short flows. This paper surveys ten proposals that attempt to solve one or more of the problems... [05 Dec 2007]
Banrisul Uses IBM Rational Software to Achieve Significant Cost Savings by Reducing the Number of Labor Hours Required to Complete IT Projects
White Paper The official bank for the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Banrisul is dedicated to promoting the social and economic development of the state. To maintain business-critical systems, Banrisul had been relying on an outdated project methodology... [16 Nov 2007]
A Kernel-Based Communication Fault Injector for Dependability Testing of Distributed Systems
White Paper Software-implemented fault injection is a powerful strategy to test fault-tolerant protocols in distributed environments. This paper presents ComFIRM, a communication fault injection tool developed which minimizes the probe effect on the tested... [01 Oct 2007]
A Kernel-Based Communication Fault Injector for Dependability Testing of Distributed Systems
White Paper Software-implemented fault injection is a powerful strategy to test fault-tolerant protocols in distributed environments. This paper presents ComFIRM, a communication fault injection tool developed which minimizes the probe effect on the tested... [11 Sep 2007]
Banco Rio Simplifies IT System by Consolidating on Oracle Database
White Paper Founded in 1908, Banco Rio is one of the most capitalized private banks in the Argentinean financial system. The company wanted to consolidate trend information about customers, products and accounting in one single database and manage customer... [05 Sep 2007]
Protecting Transmissions When Using Power Control on 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper This paper presents the ALCA (Asymmetric Link Collision Avoidance) protocol. ALCA was designed to deal with a known deficiency of the Basic Scheme Gomez et al.for power control in 802.11 ad hoc networks, which occurs when links become asymmetrical... [23 Aug 2007]
HTTP Traffic Modeling: Development and Application
White Paper This paper proposes a new HTTP model, which is based on the concept of aggregated behavior and presents two main advantages: small number of parameters and easy and precise load control. The development and features of the model are detailed. [15 Jun 2007]
Querying a Geographic Database Using an Ontology-Based Methodology
White Paper The work discussed in this paper presents a mechanism that allows different community users access the same geographic database without knowing its particular internal structure. The authors used geographic ontologies to support a common and shared... [14 Feb 2007]
Avaya Case Study: CSU
White Paper CSU implemented Avaya Call Management to serve its six contact centers located across Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Alphaville, Curitiba, Recife, and two sites in Santo Andre. CSU needed a contact center solution that would integrate different systems... [05 Sep 2006]
Dell's DJ Ditty is dead
News Dell is not the first to have bowed out of the music player market as a result of the iPod's dominance - D&M Holdings announced a year ago it would close its MP3 player division Rio. Dell has decided to ditch the last of its line of own-brand MP3... [24 Aug 2006]
CGE Consolidates Its IT Leadership With HP Superdome Servers
White Paper The acquisition of the electric company Rio Maipo, positioned CGE as the most important business group within Chile's electric industry with more than one and a half million users connected to its grid. [07 Feb 2006]
Project Rio: A Dynamic Adaptive Network Architecture
White Paper Project Rio provides key mechanisms and semantics to enable a dynamic computational system, building on the approach of turning a compute resource into a service on the network, making itself available to distributed provisioning agents. [04 Jan 2006]
