Performance prediction is set to play a significant role in supportive middleware that is designed to manage workload on parallel and distributed computing systems. This middlewa...
Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, Helene N. Li...
Most of today's multiprocessors have a DistributedShared Memory (DSM) organization, which enables scalability while retaining the convenience of the shared-memory programming...
Angeles G. Navarro, Rafael Asenjo, Emilio L. Zapat...
The M/G/K queueing system is one of the oldest model for multi-server systems, and has been the topic of performance papers for almost half a century. However, even now, only coar...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, J. G. Dai, Bert Z...
Many large-scale distributed computing applications demand real-time responses by soft deadlines. To enable such real-time task distribution and execution on the volunteer resourc...
Sangho Yi, Emmanuel Jeannot, Derrick Kondo, David ...
Determinism is mandatory for replicating distributed objects with strict consistency guarantees. Multithreaded execution of method invocations is a source of nondeterminism, but h...