— Unpredictable access to batch-mode HPC resources is a significant problem for emerging dynamic data-driven applications. Although efforts such as reservation or queue-time pred...
Recent research has shown that even modern hard disks have complex failure modes that do not conform to “failstop” operation. Disks exhibit partial failures like block access ...
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Query scheduling plays an important role when systems are faced with limited resources and high workloads. It becomes even more relevant for servers applying multiple query optimi...
The use of user specific virtual machines (VMs) in Grid and Cloud computing reduces the administration overhead associated with manually installing required software for every user...
Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallen...
—Virtual machines offer unique advantages to the scientific computing community, such as Quality of Service(QoS) guarantee, performance isolation, easy resource management, and ...
Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, Marcel Kunze, Ji...