— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Temporal dependence within the workload of any computing or networking system has been widely recognized as a significant factor affecting performance. More specifically, burstin...
Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska,...
: Parallel database systems aim at providing high throughput for OLTP transactions as well as short response times for complex and data-intensive queries. Shared nothing systems re...
Deployment of shared storage systems is increasing with rapid adoption of virtualization technologies to provide isolation, better management and high utilization of resources. Qu...
This paper describes how a visual system can automatically define features of interest from the observation of a large enough number of natural images. The principle complements t...