Cooperative checkpointing, in which the system dynamically skips checkpoints requested by applications at runtime, can exploit system-level information to improve performance and ...
Distributed interactive systems often rely on platform information, used for example when migrating a user interface to a small-screen device, or when opportunistically recruiting...
—Many emerging information processing applications require applying various fork and join type operations such as correlation, aggregation, and encoding/decoding to data streams ...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
The 1990s are seeing the explosive growth of the Internet and Web-based information sharing and dissemination systems. The Internet is also showing a potential of forming of a sup...
Production grids have a potential for parallel execution of a very large number of tasks but also introduce a high overhead that significantly impacts the execution of short task...