Many emerging applications benefit from the extraction of geospatial data specified at different resolutions for viewing purposes. Data must also be topologically accurate and up-...
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
vices provide an important abstract layer on top of heterogeneous components (hardware and software) that take part into a grid environment. In this scenario, applications, like sc...
A key challenge in supporting data-driven scientific applications is the storage and management of input and output data in a distributed environment. In this paper, we describe a...
Stephen Langella, Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, T...
Data centers constructed as clusters of inexpensive machines have compelling cost-performance benefits, but developing services to run on them can be challenging. This paper repo...