PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availabili...
Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Es...
In recent years, there has been a large increase in the amount of spatial data obtained from remote sensing, GPS receivers, communication terminals and other domains. Data warehous...
A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
Software failures in server applications are a significant problem for preserving system availability. We present ASSURE, a system that introduces rescue points that recover softw...
Stelios Sidiroglou, Oren Laadan, Carlos Perez, Nic...
This paper presents an energy management policy for reconfigurable clusters running a multi-tier application, exploiting DVS together with multiple sleep states. We develop a the...