—Various studies have pointed out the debilitating effects of OS Jitter on the performance of parallel applications on large clusters such as the ASCI Purple and the Mare Nostrum...
With the wide deployment of smart card automated fare collection (SCAFC) systems, public transit agencies have been benefiting from huge volume of transit data, a kind of sequent...
Rui Chen, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Bipin C. Desai, N&e...
An algorithm is presented for finding the k nearest neighbors in a spatial network in a best-first manner using network distance. The algorithm is based on precomputing the shorte...
Scalability is widely recognized as an important software quality, but it is a quality that historically has lacked a consistent and systematic treatment. To address this problem,...
Leticia Duboc, Emmanuel Letier, David S. Rosenblum...
This paper explores the challenge of scaling up language processing algorithms to increasingly large datasets. While cluster computing has been available in commercial environment...