As parallel jobs get bigger in size and finer in granularity, “system noise” is increasingly becoming a problem. In fact, fine-grained jobs on clusters with thousands of SMP...
Dan Tsafrir, Yoav Etsion, Dror G. Feitelson, Scott...
Sorting is among the most fundamental and well-studied problems within computer science and a core step of many algorithms. In this article, we consider the problem of constructing...
Scheduling strategies for parallel and distributed computing have mostly been oriented toward performance, while striving to achieve some notion of fairness. With the increase in ...
Darin England, Jon B. Weissman, Jayashree Sadagopa...
Many emerging smartphone applications require position information to provide location-based or context-aware services. In these applications, GPS is often preferred over its alte...
Senior citizens often find it difficult to remember names. This paper describes a novel cell phone application that uses information about one's social network and the places...
Kent Fenwick, Michael Massimi, Ronald Baecker, San...