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IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Utility-based Approach to Cost-Aware Caching in Heterogeneous Storage Systems
Modern single and multi-processor computer systems incorporate, either directly or through a LAN, a number of storage devices with diverse performance characteristics. These stora...
Liton Chakraborty, Ajit Singh
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Identifying and Addressing Uncertainty in Architecture-Level Software Reliability Modeling
Assessing reliability at early stages of software development, such as at the level of software architecture, is desirable and can provide a cost-effective way of improving a soft...
Leslie Cheung, Leana Golubchik, Nenad Medvidovic, ...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An optimistic checkpointing and selective message logging approach for consistent global checkpoint collection in distributed sy
In this paper, we present an asynchronous consistent global checkpoint collection algorithm which prevents contention for network storage at the file server and hence reduces the...
Qiangfeng Jiang, D. Manivannan
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
DejaVu: Transparent User-Level Checkpointing, Migration, and Recovery for Distributed Systems
In this paper, we present a new fault tolerance system called DejaVu for transparent and automatic checkpointing, migration, and recovery of parallel and distributed applications....
Joseph F. Ruscio, Michael A. Heffner, Srinidhi Var...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Comprehensive Analysis of OpenMP Applications on Dual-Core Intel Xeon SMPs
Hybrid chip multithreaded SMPs present new challenges as well as new opportunities to maximize performance. Our intention is to discover the optimal operating configuration of suc...
Ryan E. Grant, Ahmad Afsahi
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Implementing and Evaluating Automatic Checkpointing
As the size and popularity of computer clusters go on growing, fault tolerance is becoming a crucial factor to ensure high performance and reliability for applications. To provide...
Antonio S. Martins, Ronaldo Augusto Lara Gon&ccedi...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Optimized Inverted List Assignment in Distributed Search Engine Architectures
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...
Jiangong Zhang, Torsten Suel
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Green Supercomputing in a Desktop Box
The advent of the Beowulf cluster in 1994 provided dedicated compute cycles, i.e., supercomputing for the masses, as a cost-effective alternative to large supercomputers, i.e., su...
Wu-chun Feng, Avery Ching, Chung-Hsing Hsu
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Cosmological Simulations using Grid Middleware
Yves Caniou, Eddy Caron, Benjamin Depardon, H&eacu...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Achieving Reliable Parallel Performance in a VoD Storage Server Using Randomization and Replication
This paper investigates randomization and replication as strategies to achieve reliable performance in disk arrays targeted for video-on-demand (VoD) workloads. A disk array can p...
Yung Ryn Choe, Vijay S. Pai