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CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Fair Decentralized Scheduler for Bag-of-Tasks Applications on Desktop Grids
Desktop Grids have become very popular nowadays, with projects that include hundred of thousands computers. Desktop grid scheduling faces two challenges. First, the platform is vo...
Javier Celaya, Loris Marchal
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Large-Scale Simulation of Replica Placement Algorithms for a Serverless Distributed File System
Farsite is a scalable, distributed file system that logically functions as a centralized file server but that is physically implemented on a set of client desktop computers. Farsi...
John R. Douceur, Roger Wattenhofer
ISPAN
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Task Parallelism for Object Oriented Programs
Parallel computing is notoriously challenging due to the difficulty in developing correct and efficient programs. With the arrival of multi-core processors for desktop systems, ...
Nasser Giacaman, Oliver Sinnen
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
SWISH: semantic analysis of window titles and switching history
Information workers are often involved in multiple tasks and activities that they must perform in parallel or in rapid succession. In consequence, task management itself becomes y...
Nuria Oliver, Greg Smith, Chintan Thakkar, Arun C....
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Efficient execution of Kahn process networks on multi-processor systems using protothreads and windowed FIFOs
As single-processor systems are ceasing to scale effectively, multi-processor systems are becoming more and more popular. While there are many challenges of designing multi-process...
Wolfgang Haid, Lars Schor, Kai Huang, Iuliana Baci...