Online content distribution has increasingly gained popularity among the entertainment industry and the consumers alike. A key challenge in online content distribution is a cost-e...
Michael Sirivianos, Jong Han Park, Xiaowei Yang, S...
As consumer electronic devices with embedded browsers become popular, financial institutions and online merchants set up websites to accommodate visitors using these devices. Thes...
A common approach to benchmarking a server is to measure its behavior under load from a workload generator. Often a set of such experiments is required-perhaps with different serv...
Piyush Shivam, Varun Marupadi, Jeffrey S. Chase, T...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
Visualization is a powerful method for verifying, validating, and communicating the results of a simulated model. Lack of visual understanding about a simulated model is one of th...