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WSC
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Using Simulation to Optimize a Horizontal Carousel Storage System
Carousel storage systems are often used to increase storage density, throughput and efficiency while reducing inventory and man-hours. The Hewlett-Packard company has developed a ...
Todd LeBaron, Michael L. Hoffman
USENIX
1993
13 years 9 months ago
HighLight: Using a Log-structured File System for Tertiary Storage Management
Robotic storage devices offer huge storage capacity at a low cost per byte, but with large access times. Integrating these devices into the storage hierarchy presents a challenge ...
John T. Kohl, Carl Staelin, Michael Stonebraker
APVIS
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Visibility-driven transfer functions
Direct volume rendering is an important tool for visualizing complex data sets. However, in the process of generating 2D images from 3D data, information is lost in the form of at...
Carlos D. Correa, Kwan-Liu Ma
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Decision making with dynamically arriving information
Decision making is the ability to decide on the best alternative among a set of candidates based on their value. In many real-world domains the value depends on events that occur ...
Meir Kalech, Avi Pfeffer
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Elastic Site: Using Clouds to Elastically Extend Site Resources
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
Paul Marshall, Kate Keahey, Timothy Freeman