Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Knowledge about the workload is an important aspect for scheduling of resources as parallel computers or Grid components. As the scheduling quality highly depends on the character...
In 2002, Japan announced the Earth Simulator—a supercomputer based on low-volume vector processors and a custom network—and reported that computational scientists had used it ...
Left unchecked, the fundamental drive to increase peak performance using tens of thousands of power hungry components will lead to intolerable operating costs and failure rates. R...
To help users cope with information overload, Selective Dissemination of Information SDI will increasingly become an important tool in wide area information systems. In an SDI ser...