The optimization of spacecraft trajectories can be formulated as a global optimization task. The complexity of the problem depends greatly on the problem formulation, on the spacec...
A significant fraction of software failures in large-scale Internet systems are cured by rebooting, even when the exact failure causes are unknown. However, rebooting can be expen...
George Candea, Shinichi Kawamoto, Yuichi Fujiki, G...
Intuitively, aggressive work sharing among concurrent queries in a database system should always improve performance by eliminating redundant computation or data accesses. We show...
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis...
On-Demand Computing fulfills the need of computing availability at limited hardware and software costs. Distributed systems of this kind typically store user files in a shared ...
Fabio Dellutri, Salvatore Di Blasi, Giuseppe F. It...
Cyclops is a new architecture for high performance parallel computers being developed at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The basic cell of this architecture is a single-chip...