The Grid computing vision promises to provide the needed platform for a new and more demanding range of applications. For this promise to become true, a number of hurdles, includin...
Alexandru Iosup, Catalin Dumitrescu, Dick H. J. Ep...
It is now well established that the device scaling predicted by Moore’s Law is no longer a viable option for increasing the clock frequency of future uniprocessor systems at the...
Philippe Charles, Christian Grothoff, Vijay A. Sar...
— Data centers accumulate corporate and personal data at a rapid pace. Driven by economy of scale and the high bandwidth of today’s network connections, more and more businesse...
Data compression has been claimed to be an attractive solution to save energy consumption in high-end servers and data centers. However, there has not been a study to explore this...
—Popular Internet services are hosted by multiple geographically distributed datacenters. The location of the datacenters has a direct impact on the services’ response times, c...