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HPDC
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
ALPS: An Application-Level Proportional-Share Scheduler
ALPS is a per-application user-level proportional-share scheduler that operates with low overhead and without any special kernel support. ALPS is useful to a range of applications...
Travis Newhouse, Joseph Pasquale
HPDC
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
WOW: Self-Organizing Wide Area Overlay Networks of Virtual Workstations
— This paper describes WOW, a distributed system that combines virtual machine, overlay networking and peerto-peer techniques to create scalable wide-area networks of virtual wor...
Arijit Ganguly, Abhishek Agrawal, P. Oscar Boykin,...
HPDC
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Scheduling Mixed Workloads in Multi-grids: The Grid Execution Hierarchy
Consider a workload in which massively parallel tasks that require large resource pools are interleaved with short tasks that require fast response but consume fewer resources. We...
Mark Silberstein, Dan Geiger, Assaf Schuster, Miro...
HPDC
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Improving I/O Performance of Clustered Storage Systems by Adaptive Request Distribution
We develop an adaptive load distribution protocol for logical volume I/O workload in clustered storage systems. It exploits data redundancy among decentralized storage servers to ...
Changxun Wu, Randal C. Burns
HPDC
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On the Harmfulness of Redundant Batch Requests
Most parallel computing resources are controlled by batch schedulers that place requests for computation in a queue until access to compute nodes is granted. Queue waiting times a...
Henri Casanova
HPDC
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Effective Prediction of Job Processing Times in a Large-Scale Grid Environment
Grid applications that use a considerable number of processors for their computations need effective predictions of the expected computation times on the different nodes. Currentl...
Menno Dobber, Robert D. van der Mei, Ger Koole