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MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Heterogeneous Gossip
Abstract. Gossip-based information dissemination protocols are considered easy to deploy, scalable and resilient to network dynamics. Loadbalancing is inherent in these protocols a...
Davide Frey, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarre...
MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling Parallel System Workloads with Temporal Locality
In parallel systems, similar jobs tend to arrive within bursty periods. This fact leads to the existence of the locality phenomenon, a persistent similarity between nearby jobs, in...
Tran Ngoc Minh, Lex Wolters
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Gain of Overbooking
This paper analyzes the effect of overbooking for scheduling systems in a commercial environment. In this scenario each job is associated with a release time and a finishing deadl...
Georg Birkenheuer, André Brinkmann, Holger ...
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Analyzing the EGEE Production Grid Workload: Application to Jobs Submission Optimization
Abstract. Grids reliability remains an order of magnitude below clusters on production infrastructures. This work is aimsed at improving grid application performances by improving ...
Diane Lingrand, Johan Montagnat, Janusz Martyniak,...
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Scalability Analysis of Job Scheduling Using Virtual Nodes
It is important to identify scalability constraints in existing job scheduling software as they are applied to next generation parallel systems. In this paper, we analyze the scala...
Norman Bobroff, Richard Coppinger, Liana Fong, See...
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Decentralized Grid Scheduling with Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
In this paper, we address the problem of finding workload exchange policies for decentralized Computational Grids using an Evolutionary Fuzzy System. To this end, we establish a n...
Alexander Fölling, Christian Grimme, Joachim ...
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Job Admission and Resource Allocation in Distributed Streaming Systems
Abstract. This paper describes a new and novel scheme for job admission and resource allocation employed by the SODA scheduler in System S. Capable of processing enormous quantitie...
Joel L. Wolf, Nikhil Bansal, Kirsten Hildrum, Suja...
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Competitive Two-Level Adaptive Scheduling Using Resource Augmentation
Abstract. As multi-core processors proliferate, it has become more important than ever to ensure efficient execution of parallel jobs on multiprocessor systems. In this paper, we s...
Hongyang Sun, Yangjie Cao, Wen-Jing Hsu
JSSPP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Contention-Aware Scheduling with Task Duplication
Scheduling a task graph onto several processors is a trade-off between maximising concurrency and minimising interprocessor communication. A technique to reduce or avoid interproc...
Oliver Sinnen, Andrea To, Manpreet Kaur