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HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On the Harmfulness of Redundant Batch Requests
Most parallel computing resources are controlled by batch schedulers that place requests for computation in a queue until access to compute nodes is granted. Queue waiting times a...
Henri Casanova
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Effective Prediction of Job Processing Times in a Large-Scale Grid Environment
Grid applications that use a considerable number of processors for their computations need effective predictions of the expected computation times on the different nodes. Currentl...
Menno Dobber, Robert D. van der Mei, Ger Koole
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Motor: A Virtual Machine for High Performance Computing
High performance application development remains challenging, particularly for scientists making the transition to a Grid environment. In general areas of computing, virtual envir...
Wojtek Goscinski, David Abramson
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
When Jobs Play Nice: The Case For Symbiotic Space-Sharing
Using a large HPC platform, we investigate the effectiveness of “symbiotic space-sharing”, a technique that improves system throughput by executing parallel applications in comb...
Jonathan Weinberg, Allan Snavely
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Peer to peer size estimation in large and dynamic networks: A comparative study
As the size of distributed systems keeps growing, the peer to peer communication paradigm has been identified as the key to scalability. Peer to peer overlay networks are charact...
Erwan Le Merrer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Laurent Mas...
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Exploring I/O Strategies for Parallel Sequence-Search Tools with S3aSim
Parallel sequence-search tools are rising in popularity among computational biologists. With the rapid growth of sequence databases, database segmentation is the trend of the futu...
Avery Ching, Wu-chun Feng, Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma...
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive I/O Scheduling for Distributed Multi-applications Environments
The aIOLi project aims at optimizing the I/O accesses within the cluster by providing a simple POSIX API, thus avoiding the constraints to use a dedicated parallel I/O library. Th...
Adrien Lebre, Yves Denneulin, Guillaume Huard, Prz...
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Resource Availability Prediction in Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing Systems
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of computational resources available on the Internet. In FGCS, host computers allow guest jobs to utili...
Xiaojuan Ren, Seyong Lee, Rudolf Eigenmann, Saurab...