Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Internet servers are developing into complex but central components in the information infrastructure and are accessed by an ever-increasing and diversified user population. As s...
Manageability is a key design constraint for IT solutions, defined as the range of operations required to maintain and administer system resources through their lifecycle phases. E...
Jacob Leverich, Vanish Talwar, Parthasarathy Ranga...
Estimating the maximum power and thermal characteristics of a processor is essential for designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management sche...
Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Lizy Kurian John, ...
The use of server virtualization has been growing steadily, but many enterprises still are reluctant to migrate critical workloads to such infrastructures. One key inhibitor is the...