Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance eva...
Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin ...
' The coming of giga-bit networks makes possible the realization ofa single nationwide virtual computer comprised of a variety of geographically distributed highpe6ormance mac...
— In autonomic provisioning, a resource manager allocates resources to an application, on-demand, e.g., during load spikes. Modelling-based approaches have proved very successful...
Most space-sharing parallel computers presently operated by high-performance computing centers use batch-queuing systems to manage processor allocation. Because these machines are...
Open Source Software (OSS) has made great strides toward mainstream acceptance over the past two years. However, many IT managers, both in business and academia, are still cautiou...
Mike Davis, Will O'Donovan, John Fritz, Carlisle C...