Executing large number of independent tasks or tasks that perform minimal inter-task communication in parallel is a common requirement in many domains. In this paper, we present o...
Xiaohong Qiu, Jaliya Ekanayake, Scott Beason, Thil...
Success of Cloud computing requires that both customers and providers can be confident that signed Service Level Agreements (SLA) are supporting their respective business activitie...
New technologies have recently emerged to challenge the very nature of computing: multicore processors, virtualized operating systems and networks, and data-center clouds. One can...
Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed sy...
Patrick Wendell, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Michael J. Free...
An efficient data reduction scheme for the simplification of a surface given by a large set X of 3D point-samples is proposed. The data reduction relies on a recursive point remov...