In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Dodo, an e cient user-level system for harvesting idle memory in o -the-shelf clusters of workstations. Dodo enables dat...
This paper evaluates the bene t of adding a shared cache to the network interface as a means of improving the performance of networked workstations con gured as a distributed shar...
John K. Bennett, Katherine E. Fletcher, William Ev...
While previous CPU- or memory-centric load balancing schemes are capable of achieving the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources in a cluster system, the cluster exhib...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
Abstract. A number of individual bioinformatics applications (particularly BLAST and other sequence searching methods) have recently been implemented over clusters of workstations ...