Users of highly popular Web sites may experience long delays when accessing information. Upgrading content site infrastructure from a single node to a locally distributed Web clus...
Valeria Cardellini, Michele Colajanni, Philip S. Y...
Search engines use inverted files as index data structures to speed up the solution of user queries. The index is distributed on a set of processors forming a cluster of computer...
Abstract—A probabilistic analytical framework for decentralized load balancing (LB) strategies for heterogeneous distributed-computing systems (DCSs) is presented with the overal...
Power consumption is a very important issue for HPC community, both at the level of one application or at the level of whole workload. Load imbalance of a MPI application can be e...
Abstract—We present LeWI: a novel load balancing algorithm, that can balance applications with very different patterns of imbalance. Our algorithm can balance fine grain imbalan...