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IPPS
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Predicting how well applications may run on modern systems is becoming increasingly challenging. It is no longer sufficient to look at number of floating point operations and commu...
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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...
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OSDI
2002
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
2002
ACM
Many distributed applications can make use of large background transfers ? transfers of data that humans are not waiting for ? to improve availability, reliability, latency or con...
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MOBISYS
2005
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
2005
ACM
Abstract-Maintaining optimal consistency in a distributed system requires that nodes be always-on to synchronize information. Unfortunately, mobile devices such as laptops do not h...
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SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
In this paper we argue that the best approach to providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to current Internet services is to use admission control and traffic shaping techni...