As parallel jobs get bigger in size and finer in granularity, “system noise” is increasingly becoming a problem. In fact, fine-grained jobs on clusters with thousands of SMP...
Dan Tsafrir, Yoav Etsion, Dror G. Feitelson, Scott...
It is well documented that software product cost estimates are notoriously inaccurate across the software industry. Creating accurate cost estimates for software product developme...
Timeliness in conventional real-time systems is addressed by employing well-known scheduling techniques that guarantee the execution of a number of tasks within certain deadlines. ...
Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
Continuous testing uses excess cycles on a developer’s workstation to continuously run regression tests in the background, providing rapid feedback about test failures as source...