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SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Node weighted scheduling
Gagan Raj Gupta, Sujay Sanghavi, Ness B. Shroff
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Understanding intrinsic characteristics and system implications of flash memory based solid state drives
Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been called a “pivotal technology” that could revolutionize data storage systems. Since SSD shares a common interface with the t...
Feng Chen, David A. Koufaty, Xiaodong Zhang
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Surprising results on task assignment in server farms with high-variability workloads
This paper investigates the performance of task assignment policies for server farms, as the variability of job sizes (service demands) approaches infinity. Our results reveal th...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Andrew R. ...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Self-adaptive admission control policies for resource-sharing systems
We consider the problem of admission control in resource sharing systems, such as web servers and transaction processing systems, when the job size distribution has high variabili...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Network adiabatic theorem: an efficient randomized protocol for contention resolution
Shreevatsa Rajagopalan, Devavrat Shah, Jinwoo Shin
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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DRAM errors in the wild: a large-scale field study
Errors in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are a common form of hardware failure in modern compute clusters. Failures are costly both in terms of hardware replacement costs and...
Bianca Schroeder, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich ...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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Delay tolerant bulk data transfers on the internet
Many emerging scientific and industrial applications require transferring multiple Tbytes of data on a daily basis. Examples include pushing scientific data from particle accele...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Pablo Ro...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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MapReduce optimization using regulated dynamic prioritization
We present a system for allocating resources in shared data and compute clusters that improves MapReduce job scheduling in three ways. First, the system uses regulated and user-as...
Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai