We ask the question, "for minimizing mean response time (sojourn time), which is preferable: one fast server of speed 1, or k slow servers each of speed 1/k?" Our settin...
Adam Wierman, Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter...
It has been unknown since the time of Euler whether or not time-periodic sound wave propagation is physically possible in the compressible Euler equations, due mainly to the ubiqui...
In this paper, we present a method to speed up video encoding of GPU rendered scenes. Modern video codecs, like H.264/AVC, are based on motion compensation and support partitionin...
With the recent advent of dynamically extensible software systems, in which software extensions may be dynamically loaded into the address space of a core application to augment i...
Popular content is frequently replicated in multiple servers or caches in the Internet to offload origin servers and improve end-user experience. However, choosing the best server ...