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MIDDLEWARE
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Thread Transparency in Information Flow Middleware
Abstract. Existing middleware is based on control-flow centric interaction models such as remote method invocations, poorly matching the structure of applications that process con...
Rainer Koster, Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Jonatha...
MIDDLEWARE
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
An Efficient Component Model for the Construction of Adaptive Middleware
Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in modern distributed systems. Most recently, industry has witnessed the emergence of component-based middleware pla...
Michael Clarke, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Ni...
MIDDLEWARE
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
The CORBA Activity Service Framework for Supporting Extended Transactions
Although it has long been realised that ACID transactions by themselves are not adequate for structuring long-lived applications and much research work has been done on developing...
Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santos...
JSSPP
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Core Algorithms of the Maui Scheduler
The Maui scheduler has received wide acceptance in the HPC community as a highly configurable and effective batch scheduler. It is currently in use on hundreds of SP, O2K, and Li...
David B. Jackson, Quinn Snell, Mark J. Clement
JSSPP
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
SRPT Scheduling for Web Servers
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...
JSSPP
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Coscheduling under Memory Constraints in a NOW Environment
Networks of Workstations (NOW) have become important and cost-effective parallel platforms for scientific computations. In practice, a NOW system is heterogeneous and non-dedicat...
Francesc Giné, Francesc Solsona, Porfidio H...
JSSPP
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Metrics for Parallel Job Scheduling and Their Convergence
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...
Dror G. Feitelson
JSSPP
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Characteristics of a Large Shared Memory Production Workload
This paper characterizes the production workload that highly utilizes the NCSA Origin 2000. The characterization includes the distributions of job interarrival time, requested num...
Su-Hui Chiang, Mary K. Vernon