Clusters provide powerful computing environments, but in practice much of this power goes to waste, due to the static allocation of tasks to nodes, regardless of their changing co...
Database storage managers have long been able to efficiently handle multiple concurrent requests. Until recently, however, a computer contained only a few single-core CPUs, and th...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Nikos Hardavellas...
—Clusters and applications continue to grow in size while their mean time between failure (MTBF) is getting smaller. Checkpoint/Restart is becoming increasingly important for lar...
In many scientific applications, significant time is spent tuning codes for a particular highperformance architecture. Tuning approaches range from the relatively nonintrusive (...
Albert Hartono, Boyana Norris, Ponnuswamy Sadayapp...
Abstract. A central issue in the design of modern communication networks is the provision of Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees at the presence of heterogeneous users. For instanc...