In this paper we address the problem of managing heterogeneous workloads in a virtualized data center. We consider two different workloads: transactional applications and long-ru...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...
It is often difficult to perform efficiently a collection of jobs with complex job dependencies due to temporal unpredictability of the grid. One way to mitigate the unpredictabili...
Grzegorz Malewicz, Ian T. Foster, Arnold L. Rosenb...
Irregular applications, which rely on pointer-based data structures, are often difficult to parallelize. The inputdependent nature of their execution means that traditional paral...
The Internet is an extremely complex system, and it is essential that we be able to make accurate measurements in order to understand its underlying behavior or to detect improper...
Alden W. Jackson, Walter C. Milliken, Cesar A. San...
Abstract--Current video-on-demand (VoD) systems can be classified into two categories: 1) true-VoD (TVoD) and 2) near-VoD (NVoD). TVoD systems allocate a dedicated channel for ever...