This note briefly summarizes some results from two papers: [4] and [23]. These papers pose the following question: Is it possible to reduce the expected response time of every req...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Nikhil Bansal, Bianca Schroede...
The arrival process of jobs submitted to a parallel system is bursty, leading to fluctuations in the load at many time scales. In particular, rare events of extreme load may occu...