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PE
2010
Springer
13 years 3 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...
PE
2010
Springer
13 years 3 days 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 ...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...
STOC
2002
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2002
ACM
We investigate the price of selfish routing in non-cooperative networks in terms of the coordination and bicriteria ratios in the recently introduced game theoretic network model ...
ERLANG
2004
ACM
13 years 10 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...