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EPEW
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Closed Form Absorption Time Bounds
We consider a class of Markov chains known for its closed form transient and steady-state distributions. We show that some absorbing chains can be also seen as members of this clas...
Ana Busic, Nihal Pekergin
HOTDEP
2008
94views Hardware» more  HOTDEP 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Spread-Spectrum Computation
We observe that existing methods for failure-tolerance are inefficient in their use of time, storage and computational resources. We aim to harness the power of idle desktop compu...
Derek Gordon Murray, Steven Hand
SIGUCCS
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
A platform independent tool for evaluating performance of computing equipment for a computer laboratory
Designing computing equipment for a computer laboratory is not easy. In a class in a computer laboratory, it is not unusual that all students do the same thing simultaneously. Tre...
Takashi Yamanoue
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Imprecise Calendars: an Approach to Scheduling Computational Grids
We describe imprecise calendars, a way to organize and schedule clusters of nodes in a computation grid. Imprecise calendars permit the easy and efficient sharing of resources bet...
Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Songrit Maneewongvatana
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HPDC
1994
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Network Partitioning of Data Parallel Computations
Partitioning data parallel computations across a network of heterogeneous workstations is a dificult problem for the user: We have developed a runtime partitioning methodfor choos...
Jon B. Weissman, Andrew S. Grimshaw