We define CWS, a non-preemptive scheduling policy for workloads with correlated job sizes. CWS tackles the scheduling problem by inferring the expected sizes of upcoming jobs bas...
Information sharing is a key tenet of network-centric warfare (NCW). Information sharing succeeds when the right information is provided to the right people at the right time and ...
This paper proposes a new scheduling policy for cluster-based servers called DAS (Deferred Assignment Scheduling). The main idea in DAS is to defer scheduling as much as possible,...
Victoria Ungureanu, Benjamin Melamed, Michael N. K...
Bioinformatics algorithms such as sequence alignment methods based on profile-HMM (Hidden Markov Model) are popular but CPU-intensive. If large amounts of data are processed, a s...
Heinz Stockinger, Marco Pagni, Lorenzo Cerutti, La...
This paper presents and discusses some infrastructure services necessary for distributed applications development. The main service considered is the component search service whic...