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CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Active CoordinaTion (ACT) - toward effectively managing virtualized multicore clouds
—A key benefit of utility data centers and cloud computing infrastructures is the level of consolidation they can offer to arbitrary guest applications, and the substantial savi...
Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Kar...
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Active storage using object-based devices
—The increasing performance and decreasing cost of processors and memory are causing system intelligence to move from the CPU to peripherals such as disk drives. Storage system d...
Tina Miriam John, Anuradharthi Thiruvenkata Ramani...
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Reliable adaptable Network RAM
Abstract—We present reliability solutions for adaptable Network RAM systems running on general-purpose clusters. Network RAM allows nodes with over-committed memory to swap pages...
Tia Newhall, Daniel Amato, Alexandr Pshenichkin
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Impact of topology and link aggregation on a PC cluster with Ethernet
Abstract—In addition to its use in local area networks, Ethernet has been used for connecting hosts in the area of highperformance computing. Here, we investigated the impact of ...
Takafumi Watanabe, Masahiro Nakao, Tomoyuki Hiroya...
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Divisible load scheduling with improved asymptotic optimality
—Divisible load model allows scheduling algorithms that give nearly optimal makespan with practical computational complexity. Beaumont et al. have shown that their algorithm prod...
Reiji Suda
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Message progression in parallel computing - to thread or not to thread?
Abstract—Message progression schemes that enable communication and computation to be overlapped have the potential to improve the performance of parallel applications. With curre...
Torsten Hoefler, Andrew Lumsdaine
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Enabling lock-free concurrent fine-grain access to massive distributed data: Application to supernovae detection
—We consider the problem of efficiently managing massive data in a large-scale distributed environment. We consider data strings of size in the order of Terabytes, shared and ac...
Bogdan Nicolae, Gabriel Antoniu, Luc Bougé
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A trace-driven emulation framework to predict scalability of large clusters in presence of OS Jitter
—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...
Pradipta De, Ravi Kothari, Vijay Mann
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Predictive models for bandwidth sharing in high performance clusters
Abstract—Using MPI as communication interface, one or several applications may introduce complex communication behaviors over the network cluster. This effect is increased when n...
Jérôme Vienne, Maxime Martinasso, Jea...