—Various studies have pointed out the debilitating effects of OS Jitter on the performance of parallel applications on large clusters such as the ASCI Purple and the Mare Nostrum...
Advances in fabrication techniques are now enabling new hybrid CPU/FPGA computing resources to be integrated onto a single chip. While these new hybrids promise significant perfor...
Queueing models are routinely used to analyze the performance of software systems. However, contrary to common assumptions, the time that a software server takes to complete jobs ...
DryadLINQ is a system and a set of language extensions that enable a new programming model for large scale distributed computing. It generalizes previous execution environments su...
Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Bud...
This paper introduces and describes an innovative modelling approach which utilises models that are synthesised through approximate calculations of user actions and extensive repr...