Computer system sizing involves estimating the amount of hardware resources needed to support a new workload not yet deployed in a production environment. In order to determine th...
Ted J. Wasserman, Patrick Martin, David B. Skillic...
Many applications would benefit if media objects such as images could be selected and classified (or clustered) such that "conceptually similar" images are grouped toget...
5 In the probabilistic traveling salesman problem (PTSP), customers require a visit with a given probability, and the best solution is the tour through all customers with the lowe...
—Many companies now routinely run massive data analysis jobs – expressed in some scripting language – on large clusters of low-end servers. Many analysis scripts are complex ...
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...