Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...
Hermes is an optimization engine for large-scale enterprise e-mail services. Such services could be hosted by a virtualized e-mail service provider, or by dedicated enterprise dat...
Thomas Karagiannis, Christos Gkantsidis, Dushyanth...
Internet service utilities host multiple server applications on a shared server cluster. A key challenge for these systems is to provision shared resources on demand to meet servi...
Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Omer M. Asad, W...
The Kiva warehouse management system creates a new paradigm for pick-pack-and-ship warehouses that significantly improves worker productivity. The Kiva system uses movable storag...
We propose a distributed on-demand power-management protocol for collecting data in sensor networks. The protocol aims to reduce power consumption while supporting fluctuating dem...