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CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Minimizing the Network Overhead of Checkpointing in Cycle-harvesting Cluster Environments
Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Richard Wolski
GROUP
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Privacy in the open: how attention mediates awareness and privacy in open-plan offices
The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many aware...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Carl Gutwin, Kirstie Hawkey
LREC
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
WebLicht: Web-based LRT Services in a Distributed eScience Infrastructure
eScience - enhanced science - is a new paradigm of scientific work and research. In the humanities, eScience environments can be helpful in establishing new workflows and lifecycl...
Marie Hinrichs, Thomas Zastrow, Erhard W. Hinrichs
EDBTW
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A decision support system to improve e-learning environments
Nowadays, due to the lack of face-to-face contact, distance course instructors have real difficulties knowing who their students are, how their students behave in the virtual cour...
Marta E. Zorrilla, Diego García, Elena &Aac...
IMC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The importance of being overheard: throughput gains in wireless mesh networks
A flurry of recent work has focused on the performance gains that may be achieved by leveraging the broadcast nature of the wireless channel. In particular, researchers have obse...
Mikhail Afanasyev, Alex C. Snoeren