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SPAA
2006
ACM
16 years 22 hour ago
On the price of heterogeneity in parallel systems
Suppose we have a parallel or distributed system whose nodes have limited capacities, such as processing speed, bandwidth, memory, or disk space. How does the performance of the s...
Brighten Godfrey, Richard M. Karp
HPDC
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Cluster-wide context switch of virtualized jobs
Clusters are mostly used through Resources Management Systems (RMS) with a static allocation of resources for a bounded amount of time. Those approaches are known to be insufficie...
Fabien Hermenier, Adrien Lebre, Jean-Marc Menaud

Publication
233views
14 years 4 months ago
Sparse reward processes
We introduce a class of learning problems where the agent is presented with a series of tasks. Intuitively, if there is relation among those tasks, then the information gained duri...
Christos Dimitrakakis
CLUSTER
2010
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Middleware support for many-task computing
Many-task computing aims to bridge the gap between two computing paradigms, high throughput computing and high performance computing. Many-task computing denotes highperformance co...
Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster, Mike Wilde, Zhao Zhang,...
FOCS
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
The Complexity of Acyclic Conjunctive Queries
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
Georg Gottlob, Nicola Leone, Francesco Scarcello