To address the limitations of centralized shared storage for cloud computing, we are building Lithium, a distributed storage system designed specifically for virtualization workl...
JKanji is an interactive character completion system that provides stroke-order-independent recognition of complex hand-written glyphs such as Japanese kanji or Chinese hanzi. As ...
This is a project for developing a distributed job execution environment for highly iterative jobs. An iterative job is one where the same binary code is run hundreds of times wit...
We propose to use AdaBoost to efficiently learn classifiers over very large and possibly distributed data sets that cannot fit into main memory, as well as on-line learning wher...
We introduce a new performance metric, called Load Balancing Factor (LBF), to assist programmers with evaluating different tuning alternatives. The LBF metric differs from traditi...