Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...
Quality of service of e-commerce sites has been usually managed by the allocation of resources such as processors, disks, and network bandwidth, and by tracking conventional perfo...
Exploitation of data re-use in combination with the use of custom memory hierarchy that exploits the temporal locality of data accesses may introduce significant power savings, esp...
Dimitrios Soudris, Nikolaos D. Zervas, Antonios Ar...
A task that suspends itself to wait for an I/O completion or to wait for an event from another node in distributed environments is called an I/O blocking task. In conventional har...
Fairness is an inherent and fundamental factor of queue service disciplines in a large variety of queueing applications, ranging from airport and supermarket waiting lines to comp...