Idle desktops have been successfully used to run sequential and master-slave task parallel codes on a large scale in the context of volunteer computing. However, execution of messa...
Computer architects are constantly faced with the need to improve performance and increase the efficiency of computation in their designs. To this end, it is increasingly common ...
Nathan Clark, Amir Hormati, Scott A. Mahlke, Sami ...
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
This paper presents joint work by the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) sponsored by the Nation...
Text analysis tools are nowadays required to process increasingly large corpora which are often organized as small files (abstracts, news articles, etc). Cloud computing offers a ...