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CCGRID
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Towards Real-Time, Volunteer Distributed Computing
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 ...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Homebrew databases: complexities of everyday information management in nonprofit organizations
Many people manage a complex assortment of digital information in their lives. Volunteer coordinators at nonprofit organizations are no exception; they collectively manage informa...
Amy Voida, Ellie Harmon, Ban Al-Ani
ASUNAM
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
DisNet: A Framework for Distributed Graph Computation
—With the rise of network science as an exciting interdisciplinary research topic, efficient graph algorithms are in high demand. Problematically, many such algorithms measuring...
Ryan Lichtenwalter, Nitesh V. Chawla
CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
On the elasticity of NoSQL databases over cloud management platforms
NoSQL databases focus on analytical processing of large scale datasets, offering increased scalability over commodity hardware. One of their strongest features is elasticity, whi...
Ioannis Konstantinou, Evangelos Angelou, Christina...
CLUSTER
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Incorporating Network RAM and Flash into Fast Backing Store for Clusters
—We present Nswap2L, a fast backing storage system for general purpose clusters. Nswap2L implements a single device interface on top of multiple heterogeneous physical storage de...
Tia Newhall, Douglas Woos