NSDI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Networks are a shared resource connecting critical IT infrastructure, and the general practice is to always leave them on. Yet, meaningful energy savings can result from improving...
CLOUD
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Virtualization is often used in cloud computing platforms for its several advantages in efficiently managing resources. However, virtualization raises certain additional challeng...
COMPSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
—This paper describes a biologically-inspired network architecture, called SymbioticSphere, which allows large-scale data centers to autonomously adapt to dynamic environmental c...
COMSWARE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
1 As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of applicati...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Server virtualization more readily enables the collocation of disparate workloads on a shared physical platform. When employed on systems across a data center, the result can be a...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. An endpoint injects a packet with a destination address and the netwo...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper considers the requirements for a scalable, easily manageable, fault-tolerant, and efficient data center network fabric. Trends in multi-core processors, end-host virtua...
EUROPAR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Recently many large scale computer systems are built in order to meet the high storage and processing demands of compute and data-intensive applications. MapReduce is one of the mo...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
In today’s data centers, precisely controlling server power consumption is an essential way to avoid system failures caused by power capacity overload or overheating due to incr...