We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
Identifying peptides, which are short polymeric chains of amino acid residues in a protein sequence, is of fundamental importance in systems biology research. The most popular appr...
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
With the heavy reliance of modern scientific applications upon the MPI Standard, it has become critical for the implementation of MPI to be as capable and as fast as possible. Th...
Keith D. Underwood, K. Scott Hemmert, Arun Rodrigu...
A major challenge facing grid applications is the appropriate handling of failures. In this paper we address the problem of making parallel Java applications based on Remote Method...