As Grids become increasingly relied upon as critical infrastructure, it is imperative to ensure the highly-available and secure day-to-day operation of the Grid infrastructure. The...
Jonathan C. Rowanhill, Glenn S. Wasson, Zach Hill,...
Next generation of GIS software should be able to manipulate and analyse complex situations of real world phenomena. One of the desired components in such software or system is the...
Chen Tet-Khuan, Alias Abdul-Rahman, Sisi Zlatanova
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...