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IPPS
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Cost/Performance Tradeoffs in Network Interconnects for Clusters of Commodity PCs
The definition of a commodity component is quite obvious when it comes to the PC as a basic compute engine and building block for clusters of PCs. Looking at the options for a mo...
Christian Kurmann, Felix Rauch, Thomas Stricker
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NCA
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Network-Aware Adaptation Techniques for Mobile File Systems
Wireless networks present unusual challenges for mobile file system clients, since they are characterised by unpredictable connectivity and widely-varying bandwidth. The traditio...
Benjamin Atkin, Kenneth P. Birman
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AAAI
2000
15 years 5 months ago
Iterative Flattening: A Scalable Method for Solving Multi-Capacity Scheduling Problems
One challenge for research in constraint-based scheduling has been to produce scalable solution procedures under fairly general representational assumptions. Quite often, the comp...
Amedeo Cesta, Angelo Oddi, Stephen F. Smith
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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Human-Currency Interaction: learning from virtual currency use in China
What happens when the domains of HCI design and money intersect? This paper presents analyses from an ethnographic study of virtual currency use in China to discuss implications f...
Scott D. Mainwaring, Yang Wang 0005
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IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Making lockless synchronization fast: performance implications of memory reclamation
Achieving high performance for concurrent applications on modern multiprocessors remains challenging. Many programmers avoid locking to improve performance, while others replace l...
Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Bro...