It is often difficult to perform efficiently a collection of jobs with complex job dependencies due to temporal unpredictability of the grid. One way to mitigate the unpredictabili...
Grzegorz Malewicz, Ian T. Foster, Arnold L. Rosenb...
In this work we present an initial performance evaluation of Intel's latest, secondgeneration quad-core processor, Nehalem, and provide a comparison to first-generation AMD a...
Kevin J. Barker, Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Darren ...
Given a vector of floating-point numbers with exact sum s, we present an algorithm for calculating a faithful rounding of s, i.e. the result is one of the immediate floating-point ...
This paper develops analytic models that characterize the behavior of on-demand stored media content delivery using BitTorrent-like protocols. The models capture the effects of di...
Nadim Parvez, Carey L. Williamson, Anirban Mahanti...
This paper proposes a fine granularity scalable (FGS) coding using cycle-based leaky prediction, in which the multiple leaky factors are used to yield enhancement layer prediction ...
Xiangyang Ji, Yanyan Zheng, Debin Zhao, Feng Wu, W...