Recently, energy has become an important issue in highperformance computing. For example, supercomputers that have energy in mind, such as BlueGene/L, have been built; the idea is...
Vincent W. Freeh, Feng Pan, Nandini Kappiah, David...
This paper addresses the problem of fine-grained data replication in large distributed systems, such as the Internet, so as to minimize the user access delays. With fine-grained d...
Data centers are the backend for a large number of services that we take for granted today. A significant fraction of the total cost of ownership of these large-scale storage syst...
Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Mahesh Balakri...
Let {Sm} be an infinite sequence whose limit or antilimit S can be approximated very efficiently by applying a suitable extrapolation method E0 to {Sm}. Assume that the Sm and henc...
It is apparent that perturbations of the North American electric power grid follow the patterns and characteristics of Self Organized Critical (SOC) systems. Published studies sho...