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USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
A Multi-Site Virtual Cluster System for Wide Area Networks
A virtual cluster is a promising technology for reducing management costs and improving capacity utilization in datacenters and computer centers. However, recent cluster virtualiz...
Takahiro Hirofuchi, Takeshi Yokoi, Tadashi Ebara, ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
297views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
17 years 6 months ago
Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads
Virtual machine monitors are becoming popular tools for the deployment of database management systems and other enterprise software applications. In this paper, we consider a commo...
Ahmed A. Soror, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, P...
VIS
2004
IEEE
146views Visualization» more  VIS 2004»
16 years 8 months ago
Tracking of Vector Field Singularities in Unstructured 3D Time-Dependent Datasets
In this paper, we present an approach for monitoring the positions of vector field singularities in time-dependent datasets. The concept of singularity index is discussed and exte...
Christoph Garth, Xavier Tricoche, Gerik Scheuerman...
VLSID
2007
IEEE
131views VLSI» more  VLSID 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
Defect-Aware Synthesis of Droplet-Based Microfluidic Biochips
Recent advances in microfluidics technology have led to the emergence of miniaturized biochip devices for biochemical analysis. A promising category of microfluidic biochips relie...
Tao Xu, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Fei Su
STOC
2002
ACM
149views Algorithms» more  STOC 2002»
16 years 7 months ago
The complexity of choosing an H-colouring (nearly) uniformly at random
Cooper, Dyer and Frieze studied the problem of sampling H-colourings (nearly) uniformly at random. Special cases of this problem include sampling colourings and independent sets a...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Steven Kelk, Mike Paterson