Robotic tape libraries are popular for applications with very high storage requirements, such as video servers. Here, we study the throughput of a tape library system, we design a...
Costas Georgiadis, Peter Triantafillou, Christos F...
Advance Reservations are an important concept to support QoS and Workflow Scheduling in Grid environments. However, the impact of reservations from the Grid on the performance of ...
Felix Heine, Matthias Hovestadt, Odej Kao, Achim S...
Markets of computing resources typically consist of a cluster (or a multi-cluster) and jobs that arrive over time and request computing resources in exchange for payment. In this p...
Sergei Shudler, Lior Amar, Amnon Barak, Ahuva Mu'a...
In addition to providing small mean response times, modern applications seek to provide users predictable service and, in some cases, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In order...
This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty (SUU), in which the execution of each job may fail probabilist...
Christopher Y. Crutchfield, Zoran Dzunic, Jeremy T...