PE
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Springer
A central question in designing server farms today is how to efficiently provision the number of servers to extract the best performance under unpredictable demand patterns while ...
PE
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...
CLUSTER
2001
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2001
IEEE
This paper describes GulfStream, a scalable distributed software system designed to address the problem of managing the network topology in a multi-domain server farm. In particul...
SPAA
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2003
ACM
We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
ERLANG
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper presents the System Status suite of applications. These applications are used to provide a simple, uniform, and low developer cost system for exporting and tracking the...