An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
The practical realization of managing and executing large scale scientific computations efficiently and reliably is quite challenging. Scientific computations often invo...
Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster, Mihael Hateg...
We address the issue of measuring storage, or query load distribution fairness in peer-to-peer data management systems. Existing metrics may look promising from the point of view ...
Abstract-- In many portable devices, wireless network interfaces consume upwards of 30% of scarce system energy. Reducing the transceiver's power consumption to extend the sys...
Sofie Pollin, Rahul Mangharam, Bruno Bougard, Lies...