A question that database administrators (DBAs) routinely need to answer is how long a batch query workload will take to complete. This question arises, for example, while planning...
Disk subsystem is known to be a major contributor to overall power consumption of high-end parallel systems. Past research proposed several architectural level techniques to reduc...
Seung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir, A...
Given a large group of cooperative agents, selecting the right coordination or conflict resolution strategy can have a significant impact on their performance (e.g., speed of co...
Large–scale parallel applications performing global synchronization may spend a significant amount of execution time waiting for the completion of a barrier operation. Conseque...
The increase in the use of parallel distributed architectures in order to solve large-scale scientific problems has generated the need for performance prediction for both determi...