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USENIX
2003
15 years 1 months ago
Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...
Keir Faser, Fay Chang
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Network-Aware Distributed Computing: A Case Study
Abstract. The development of network-aware applications, i.e. applications that dynamically adapt to network conditions, has had some success in the domain of multimedia applicatio...
Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Peter Steenkiste
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Using Checkpointing to Enhance Turnaround Time on Institutional Desktop Grids
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...
Patrício Domingues, Artur Andrzejak, Lu&iac...
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GPC
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Server-Side Parallel Data Reduction and Analysis
Abstract. Geoscience analysis is currently limited by cumbersome access and manipulation of large datasets from remote sources. Due to their data-heavy and compute-light nature, th...
Daniel L. Wang, Charles S. Zender, Stephen F. Jenk...
HPDC
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
A statistical approach to risk mitigation in computational markets
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai