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FASE
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Language-Based Optimisation of Sensor-Driven Distributed Computing Applications
In many distributed computing paradigms, especially sensor networks and ubiquitous computing but also grid computing and web services, programmers commonly tie their application to...
Jonathan J. Davies, Alastair R. Beresford, Alan My...
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Utility Computing Systems
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...
Linlin Wu, Rajkumar Buyya
IPPS
2005
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
MaTCH : Mapping Data-Parallel Tasks on a Heterogeneous Computing Platform Using the Cross-Entropy Heuristic
We propose in this paper a heuristic for mapping a set of interacting tasks of a parallel application onto a heterogeneous computing platform such as a computational grid. Our nov...
Soumya Sanyal, Sajal K. Das
HCW
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Unified Resource Scheduling Framework for Heterogeneous Computing Environments
A major challenge in Metacomputing Systems (Computational Grids) is to effectively use their shared resources, such as compute cycles, memory, communication network, and data repo...
Ammar H. Alhusaini, Viktor K. Prasanna, Cauligi S....
EENERGY
2010
15 years 11 months ago
ICT for green: how computers can help us to conserve energy
Information and communication technology (ICT) consumes energy, but is also an important means of conserving energy. Conventionally, it has done so by optimizing the performance o...
Friedemann Mattern, Thorsten Staake, Markus Weiss