Grid technologies are emerging as the next generation of distributed computing, allowing the aggregation of resources that are geographically distributed across different location...
As Internet services become ubiquitous, the selection and management of diverse server platforms now affects the bottom line of almost every firm in every industry. Ideally, such ...
Christopher Stewart, Terence Kelly, Alex Zhang, Ka...
Emergence of chip multiprocessor systems has dramatically increased the performance potential of computer systems. Since the amount of exploited parallelism is directly influenced ...
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...
Portable systems require long battery lifetime while still delivering high performance. Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) algorithms reduce energy consumption by changing processor sp...
Tajana Simunic, Luca Benini, Andrea Acquaviva, Pet...