CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Springer
The need for high performance and throughput Question Answering (QA) systems demands for their migration to distributed environments. However, even in such cases it is necessary t...
HIPC
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
1 Since I/O-intensive tasks running on a heterogeneous cluster need a highly effective usage of global I/O resources, previous CPUor memory-centric load balancing schemes suffer ...
SBACPAD
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
Load balancing in a cluster system has been investigated extensively, mainly focusing on the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources. However, if a significant portion ...
ICPPW
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper, a new I/O-aware load-balancing scheme is presented to improve overall performance of a distributed system with a general and practical workload including I/O activi...