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DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs
As most computer systems are expected to remain operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they must complete maintenance work while in operation. This work is in addition to the ...
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska,...
COMPSAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Performance Analysis of an Asynchronous Web Server
Modern Web servers need to process multiple requests concurrently in order to fulfill the workload demands expected of them. Concurrency can be implemented in a Web server using ...
U. Praphamontripong, Swapna S. Gokhale, Aniruddha ...
CLUSTER
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Improving the Performance of Cluster Applications through I/O Proxy Architecture
Clusters are the most common solutions for high performance computing at the present time. In this kind of systems, an important challenge is the I/O subsystem design. Typically, ...
Luis Miguel Sánchez, Florin Isaila, Alejand...
CLUSTER
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Kernel-Level Measurement for Integrated Parallel Performance Views: the KTAU Project
The effect of the operating system on application performance is an increasingly important consideration in high performance computing. OS kernel measurement is key to understandi...
Aroon Nataraj, Allen D. Malony, Sameer Shende, Ala...
CCGRID
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Statistical Data Reduction for Efficient Application Performance Monitoring
There is a growing need for systems that can monitor and analyze application performance data automatically in order to deliver reliable and sustained performance to applications....
Lingyun Yang, Jennifer M. Schopf, Catalin Dumitres...
PVM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Self-consistent MPI Performance Requirements
Abstract. The MPI Standard does not make any performance guarantees, but users expect (and like) MPI implementations to deliver good performance. A common-sense expectation of perf...
Jesper Larsson Träff, William Gropp, Rajeev T...
NPC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Performance Prediction for Mappings of Distributed Applications on PC Clusters
Abstract. Distributed applications running on clusters may be composed of several components with very different performance requirements. The FlowVR middleware allows the develop...
Sylvain Jubertie, Emmanuel Melin
MLDM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Selection of Experts for the Design of Multiple Biometric Systems
Abstract. In the biometric field, different experts are combined to improve the system reliability, as in many application the performance attained by individual experts (i.e., d...
Roberto Tronci, Giorgio Giacinto, Fabio Roli
MABS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Middleware Support for Performance Improvement of MABS Applications in the Grid Environment
The Grid can be the right environment for large-scale Multi-agent based simulation (MABS) applications. However, due to the nature of the Grid and the characteristics of MABS, achi...
Dawit Mengistu, Paul Davidsson, Lars Lundberg
JSSPP
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Group-Wise Performance Evaluation of Processor Co-allocation in Multi-cluster Systems
Performance evaluation in multi-cluster processor co-allocation - like in many other parallel job scheduling problems- is mostly done by computing the average metric value for the ...
John Ngubiri, Mario van Vliet