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2005
Tsinghua U.
16 years 6 days ago
System noise, OS clock ticks, and fine-grained parallel applications
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...
IACR
2011
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14 years 6 months ago
Secure Multi-Party Sorting and Applications
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...
Kristján Valur Jónsson, Gunnar Kreit...
HPDC
2005
IEEE
16 years 9 days ago
A new metric for robustness with application to job scheduling
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...
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Energy-efficient rate-adaptive GPS-based positioning for smartphones
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...
Jeongyeup Paek, Joongheon Kim, Ramesh Govindan
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Cell phone software aiding name recall
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...