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WOSP
2000
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Analytic modeling of load balancing policies for tasks with heavy-tailed distributions
We present an analytic technique for modeling load balancing policies on a cluster of servers conditioned on the fact that the service times of arriving tasks are drawn from heavy...
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo
KBSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A Framework for State-Space Exploration of Java-Based Actor Programs
—The actor programming model offers a promising model for developing reliable parallel and distributed code. Actors provide flexibility and scalability: local execution may be i...
Steven Lauterburg, Mirco Dotta, Darko Marinov, Gul...
CIDR
2003
106views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
Speculative Query Processing
Speculation is an every day phenomenon whereby one acts in anticipation of particular conditions that are likely to hold in the future. Computer science research has seen many suc...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Yannis E. Ioannidis
PARLE
1994
15 years 6 months ago
Modelling Photochemical Pollution using Parallel and Distributed Computing Platforms
Scientists are increasingly turning to numerical simulation in order to investigate and model complex environmental systems. Numerical simulation has enormous advantages over labor...
David Abramson, M. Cope, R. McKenzie
PADS
1997
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Distributed Simulation of Spatially Explicit Ecological Models
Large-scale ecological simulations are natural candidates for distributed discrete event simulation. In optimistic simulation of spatially explicit models, a difficult problem ar...
Kevin Glass, Marilynn Livingston, John S. Conery