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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 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
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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Load Balancing using Grid-based Peer-to-Peer Parallel I/O
In the area of Grid computing, there is a growing need to process large amounts of data. To support this trend, we need to develop efficient parallel storage systems that can prov...
Yijian Wang, David R. Kaeli
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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Feasibility Analysis of Power Awareness in Commodity-Based High-Performance Clusters
We present a feasibility study of a power-reduction scheme that reduces the thermal power of processors by lowering frequency and voltage in the context of high-performance comput...
Chung-Hsing Hsu, Wu-chun Feng
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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Search-based Job Scheduling for Parallel Computer Workloads
To balance performance goals and allow administrators to declaratively specify high-level performance goals, we apply complete search algorithms to design on-line job scheduling p...
Sangsuree Vasupongayya, Su-Hui Chiang, B. Massey
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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Memory Management Support for Multi-Programmed Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Systems
Current operating systems offer basic support for network interface controllers (NICs) supporting remote direct memory access (RDMA). Such support typically consists of a device d...
Kostas Magoutis
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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On the Discovery of Brokers in Distributed Messaging Infrastructures
Increasingly messaging infrastructures are being used to support the communication requirements of a wide variety of clients, services, and proxies thereto. Typically, for various...
Shrideep Pallickara, Harshawardhan Gadgil, Geoffre...
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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Toward an Optimal Redundancy Strategy for Distributed Computations
Volunteer distributed computations utilize spare processor cycles of personal computers that are connected to the Internet. The related computation integrity concerns are commonly...
Doug Szajda, Barry Lawson, Jason Owen
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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Static scheduling of dependent parallel tasks on heterogeneous clusters
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling parallel tasks, represented by a direct acyclic graph (DAG) on heterogeneous clusters. Parallel tasks, also called malleable tasks, ...
Jorge G. Barbosa, C. N. Morais, R. Nobrega, A. P. ...
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2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Supporting iWARP Compatibility and Features for Regular Network Adapters
With several recent initiatives in the protocol offloading technology present on network adapters, the user market is now distributed amongst various technology levels including r...
Pavan Balaji, Hyun-Wook Jin, Karthikeyan Vaidyanat...
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Fast Query Processing by Distributing an Index over CPU Caches
Data intensive applications on clusters often require requests quickly be sent to the node managing the desired data. In many applications, one must look through a sorted tree str...
Xiaoqin Ma, Gene Cooperman