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The SCADS Director: Scaling a Distributed Storage System Under Stringent Performance Requirements
Elasticity of cloud computing environments provides an economic incentive for automatic resource allocation of stateful systems running in the cloud. However, these systems have t...
Beth Trushkowsky, Peter Bodík, Armando Fox,...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
16 years 7 hour ago
The Applicability of Adaptive Control Theory to QoS Design: Limitations and Solutions
Due to the increasing complexity, the behavior of large-scale distributed systems becomes difficult to predict. The ability of on-line identification and autotuning of adaptive co...
Keqiang Wu, David J. Lilja, Haowei Bai
IJRR
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Automated Design of Adaptive Controllers for Modular Robots using Reinforcement Learning
Designing distributed controllers for self-reconfiguring modular robots has been consistently challenging. We have developed a reinforcement learning approach which can be used bo...
Paulina Varshavskaya, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Danie...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
On the Design of Fast Pseudo-Random Number Generators for the Cell Broadband Engine and an Application to Risk Analysis
Numerical simulations in computational physics, biology, and finance, often require the use of high quality and efficient parallel random number generators. We design and optimi...
David A. Bader, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Virat ...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 21 days ago
The Design and Implementation of Checkpoint/Restart Process Fault Tolerance for Open MPI
To be able to fully exploit ever larger computing platforms, modern HPC applications and system software must be able to tolerate inevitable faults. Historically, MPI implementati...
Joshua Hursey, Jeffrey M. Squyres, Timothy Mattox,...