Desktop Grids have become very popular nowadays, with projects that include hundred of thousands computers. Desktop grid scheduling faces two challenges. First, the platform is vo...
Abstract--Reducing energy consumption for high end computing can bring various benefits such as, reduce operating costs, increase system reliability, and environment respect. This ...
Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, Jai Dayal, Fugan...
ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems. It works by scheduling bandwidth probes between pairs of hosts, wherein eac...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
Abstract. Shared last level cache is crucial to performance. However, multithread program model incurs serious contention in shared cache. In this paper, to reduce average cache ac...
Abstract. Our work focuses on distributed software services and their requirements in terms of system performance and dependability. We target the problem of finding optimal deploy...