Optimizing energy consumption has become a major concern in designing economical clusters. Scheduling precedence-constrained parallel tasks on clusters is challenging because of h...
Ziliang Zong, Adam Manzanares, Brian Stinar, Xiao ...
— Traffic shaping is a well-known technique in the area of networking and is proven to reduce global buffer requirements and end-to-end delays in networked systems. Due to these...
Ernesto Wandeler, Alexander Maxiaguine, Lothar Thi...
The analysis, and eventual approval or rejection, of new enterprise information technology (IT) initiatives often proceeds on the basis of informal estimates of return on investme...
This paper discusses the process of building an environment where large-scale, complex, scientific analysis can be scheduled onto a heterogeneous collection of computational and s...
Ewa Deelman, Scott Callaghan, Edward Field, Hunter...
The popularity of distributed learning and the continued growth in the number of colleges and universities offering courses delivered entirely via asynchronous learning networks (...