: The development of real-time systems that are distributed over a wide area is a significant problem that has challenged researchers for many years. Such systems require precise t...
K. H. (Kane) Kim, Stephen F. Jenks, Larry Smarr, A...
—this paper studies the influence that task placement may have on the performance of applications, mainly due to the relationship between communication locality and overhead. Thi...
Javier Navaridas, Jose Antonio Pascual, José...
This paper proposes a comprehensive modeling architecture for workloads on parallel computers using Markov chains in combination with state dependent empirical distribution functi...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...
In systems where customer service demands are only known probabilistically, there is very little to distinguish between jobs. Therefore, no universal optimum scheduling strategy o...
Sarah Tasneem, Lester Lipsky, Reda A. Ammar, Howar...