Data Centers
The traditional data center is undergoing many changes, if not a revolution. Hybrid cloud infrastructures, hosted servers, virtualized servers, and new methods to save energy and reduce costs in the data center create an ever-challenging array of decisions for today's data center managers.
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IDC: Through Hardware Innovation Comes Support Automation
This IDC white paper outlines the support-oriented benefits of evolving technology incorporated into the physical box itself as well as technologies that enable remote support. As vendors develop new ...
Sponsored By HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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IDG Quick Pulse Tech Dossier: Survey Highlights Needs for Better Server Energy Efficiency
CIOs and other IT leaders are aware that they need to do more to enhance data center efficiencies. A recent survey of 124 IT executives and managers shed light on their needs and objectives as they re...
Sponsored By HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Enlightened data center automation in the cloud age
How to achieve transformative efficiency gains - without disrupting IT Forward-looking companies are realizing that automation is an absolute prerequisite for migration to the cloud-and the key to a ...
Sponsored By HP
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Managing performance in dynamic IT environments
The rise of virtualized, cloud, and software-defined data centers requires new approaches to performance management. These next-generation data centers virtualize IT resources to enable the pooling a...
Sponsored By HP
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Magic Quadrant for Data Center Network Infrastructure
The requirements for data center networking equipment have evolved rapidly, with emerging technologies increasingly focused on supporting more automation and simplified operations within a virtualized...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Networking Hardware, Q1 2013
This in-depth Forrester report details their findings about how technology companies measure up against defined strategic criteria categories and each other to help infrastructure and operations profe...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Air Containment Systems: Reducing Energy Consumption in the Data Center
Data centers are mission critical facilities and the nerve center of successful business operations. Surging demand for processing power, work load virtualization and consolidation combined with the p...
Sponsored By Panduit
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Maximizing Cooling Energy Efficiency with Effective Cabinet Sealing
IT Professionals and Data center managers often face multiple priorities such as reducing operational costs, improving energy efficiency and optimizing available capacity. Read this whitepaper to lear...
Sponsored By Panduit
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Physical Infrastructure Optimization: A Foundation for Growth
An inadequate physical infrastructure interferes with an organization’s ability to complete needed initiatives and makes it difficult or impossible to achieve the objectives. Consolidation, virtualiza...
Sponsored By Panduit
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How Data Centre Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs
Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enablin...
Sponsored By APC
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Data Center Efficiency Calculator
The purpose of this tool is to show how various design decisions and operating conditions affect the efficiency and electrical costs of a typical generic data center. As the user inputs details regard...
Sponsored By APC
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Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Evaluating and Implementing DCIM Solutions
While many who invest in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software benefit greatly, some do not. Research has revealed a number of pitfalls that end users should avoid when evaluating and ...
Sponsored By APC
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Visions of my Datacenter Virtualized
Although many small- and mid-size businesses have not yet invested in server virtualization, they are actually limiting themselves from dramatic total cost of ownership (TCO) savings and improved busi...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Solutions for a More Energy-Efficient Data Center: From Water to Fresh-Air Cooling
This white paper discusses recent trends in the industry toward increasing energy efficiency of the data center in order to save on power and cooling costs without reducing performance. Included in th...
Sponsored By IBM
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Executive's guide to the 21st century data center
To help you develop the best data center strategies for your organization, ZDNet and TechRepublic pulled together this collection of the latest information, analysis, perspective, and advice.
Sponsored By TechRepublic
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Troubleshooting Cisco Switches
When an outage or network incident takes place, it can often create an intense burden for the engineers called upon to assist. As is the case with many emergencies, the demand for action and results m...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Networking Concepts
VMware vCloud Director engineers the provisioning of the software-defined datacenter layer to allow for a complete virtual datacenter delivery within a short period of time. This software-defined data...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Data Center Basics - Cisco UCS
The Cisco UCS is a major step forward in data center development and creates numerous business and technical benefits. While complex from a technical standpoint, the system actually helps enterprises ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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HP Advanced Data Center Network Architecture
This white paper reviews data center trends and describes HP solutions for building cost-effective, advanced data center networks that meet the evolving performance, reliability and agility demands of...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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The Four Steps to Virtual Port Channel
Virtual port channel (VPC) takes redundancy to a new level in the data center. With the right equipment, you can leverage the functionalities of VPC by making all available paths usable and giving all...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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The Cloud: Promises and Realities
Explore some of the early drivers of cloud services and how these drivers have influenced current expectations. You'll learn about how different technologies have helped create those promises - some t...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Virtualizing Your Cisco Unified Communications with Cisco UCS
With the advent of integrated solutions like the Cisco UCS, the datacenter has undergone a major paradigm shift of both design and operational management. Knowing the consequences of our designs, not ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Using modular Data Centre
The explosion in IT demand has intensified pressure on data centres resources, making it difficult to respond to business needs, especially while budgets remain flat. As capacity demands become incr...
Provided By IBM
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High-Performance Physics Simulations Using Multi-Core CPUs and GPGPUs in a Volunteer Computing Context
Energy minimization of Ising spin-glasses has played a central role in statistical and solid-state physics, facilitating studies of phase transitions and magnetism. Recent proposals suggest using Isin...
Provided By Cornell University
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The Power of Flexibility
Driven by unprecedented business demands, IT is expected to deliver more services and innovative solutions at record speed to an ever-widening global customer base. Meanwhile, high operational costs, ...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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Exploring Smart Grid and Data Center Interactions for Electric Power Load Balancing
The operation of a data center consumes a tremendous amount of electricity, and the energy cost accounts for a large portion of the data center's operation cost. This leads to a growing interest towar...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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A Survey of Different Residential Energy Consumption Controlling Techniques for Autonomous DSM in Future Smart Grid Communications
In this paper, the authors present a survey of residential load controlling techniques to implement demand side management in future smart grid. Power generation sector facing important challenges in ...
Provided By COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
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Home Energy Management Systems in Future Smart Grids
The authors present a detailed review of various Home Energy Management Schemes (HEMS). HEMs will increase savings, reduce peak demand and Pto Average Ratio (PAR). Among various applications of smart ...
Provided By COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
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Leveraging Endpoint Flexibility in Data-Intensive Clusters
Many applications do not constrain the destinations of their network transfers. New opportunities emerge when such transfers contribute a large amount of network bytes. By choosing the endpoints to av...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Temporal Bandwidth-Intensive Virtual Network Allocation Optimization in a Data Center Network
In this paper, the authors consider bandwidth-intensive services for customers that want Virtual Networks (VN) in a data center environment. In particular, they consider this problem in a temporal con...
Provided By University of Missouri-Columbia
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Joint Virtual Machine Assignment and Traffic Engineering for Green Data Center Networks
The popularization of cloud computing brings emergency concern to the energy consumption in big data centers. Besides the servers, the energy consumed by the network in a data center is also considera...
Provided By University of Western Australia
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Two-Level Throughput and Latency IO Control for Parallel File Systems
Existing parallel file systems are unable to provide both throughput and response time guarantees for concurrent parallel applications. This limitation prevents different, competing applications from ...
Provided By Florida International University
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Dynamic Management Techniques For Increasing Energy Efficiency within a Data Center
In the authors' days data centers provide the global community an indispensable service: nearly unlimited access to almost any kind of information they can imagine by supporting most Internet services...
Provided By University of British Columbia - Department of Computer Science
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Data Center Best Practices: Managing Data with Cloud Computing
Data centers are looking at cloud computing as a way to deliver the necessary flexibility, scalability, efficiency and speed. This article looks at Data Center Best Practices and focuses on how compa...
Provided By Oracle
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Energy-Optimized Dynamic Deferral of Workload for Capacity Provisioning in Data Centers
In this paper, the authors explores the opportunity for energy cost saving in data centers that utilizes the flexibility from the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and proposes a novel approach for capa...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Locally Repairable Codes With Multiple Repair Alternatives
Distributed storage systems need to store data redundantly in order to provide some fault-tolerance and guarantee system reliability. Different coding techniques have been proposed to provide the requ...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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Bank Rakyat Indonesia Expands Domestic Coverage With Unified Data Center Architecture
PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) are constantly seeking out new markets to serve. There challenges were too keen competition in targeted markets, data center services need to be aligned with business e...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Non-Monetary Fair Scheduling - A Cooperative Game Theory Approach
The authors consider a multi-organizational system in which each organization contributes processors to the global pool but also jobs to be processed on the common resources. The fairness of the sched...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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An Implementation of Binomial Method of Option Pricing using Parallel Computing
The Binomial method of option pricing is based on iterating over discounted option payoffs in a recursive fashion to calculate the present value of an option. Implementing the Binomial method to explo...
Provided By University of Mary Washington
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Asset Management Company Builds New, Agile Data Centers
Built largely through acquisition of top asset managers, Allianz Global Investors (AGI), a world leader in asset management and a subsidiary, there challenges were need to streamline data center manag...
Provided By Cisco
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VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Networking Concepts
VMware vCloud Director engineers the provisioning of the software-defined datacenter layer to allow for a complete virtual datacenter delivery within a short period of time. This software-defined data...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Air Containment Systems: Reducing Energy Consumption in the Data Center
Data centers are mission critical facilities and the nerve center of successful business operations. Surging demand for processing power, work load virtualization and consolidation combined with the p...
Sponsored By Panduit
-
Maximizing Cooling Energy Efficiency with Effective Cabinet Sealing
IT Professionals and Data center managers often face multiple priorities such as reducing operational costs, improving energy efficiency and optimizing available capacity. Read this whitepaper to lear...
Sponsored By Panduit
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Physical Infrastructure Optimization: A Foundation for Growth
An inadequate physical infrastructure interferes with an organization’s ability to complete needed initiatives and makes it difficult or impossible to achieve the objectives. Consolidation, virtualiza...
Sponsored By Panduit
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IDC: Through Hardware Innovation Comes Support Automation
This IDC white paper outlines the support-oriented benefits of evolving technology incorporated into the physical box itself as well as technologies that enable remote support. As vendors develop new ...
Sponsored By HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
-
Executive's guide to the 21st century data center
To help you develop the best data center strategies for your organization, ZDNet and TechRepublic pulled together this collection of the latest information, analysis, perspective, and advice.
Sponsored By TechRepublic
-
Data Center Basics - Cisco UCS
The Cisco UCS is a major step forward in data center development and creates numerous business and technical benefits. While complex from a technical standpoint, the system actually helps enterprises ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
-
The Cloud: Promises and Realities
Explore some of the early drivers of cloud services and how these drivers have influenced current expectations. You'll learn about how different technologies have helped create those promises - some t...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
-
Solutions for a More Energy-Efficient Data Center: From Water to Fresh-Air Cooling
This white paper discusses recent trends in the industry toward increasing energy efficiency of the data center in order to save on power and cooling costs without reducing performance. Included in th...
Sponsored By IBM
-
Virtualizing Your Cisco Unified Communications with Cisco UCS
With the advent of integrated solutions like the Cisco UCS, the datacenter has undergone a major paradigm shift of both design and operational management. Knowing the consequences of our designs, not ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
-
Visions of my Datacenter Virtualized
Although many small- and mid-size businesses have not yet invested in server virtualization, they are actually limiting themselves from dramatic total cost of ownership (TCO) savings and improved busi...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
-
Troubleshooting Cisco Switches
When an outage or network incident takes place, it can often create an intense burden for the engineers called upon to assist. As is the case with many emergencies, the demand for action and results m...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
-
IDG Quick Pulse Tech Dossier: Survey Highlights Needs for Better Server Energy Efficiency
CIOs and other IT leaders are aware that they need to do more to enhance data center efficiencies. A recent survey of 124 IT executives and managers shed light on their needs and objectives as they re...
Sponsored By HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
-
Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Evaluating and Implementing DCIM Solutions
While many who invest in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software benefit greatly, some do not. Research has revealed a number of pitfalls that end users should avoid when evaluating and ...
Sponsored By APC
-
Magic Quadrant for Data Center Network Infrastructure
The requirements for data center networking equipment have evolved rapidly, with emerging technologies increasingly focused on supporting more automation and simplified operations within a virtualized...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Networking Hardware, Q1 2013
This in-depth Forrester report details their findings about how technology companies measure up against defined strategic criteria categories and each other to help infrastructure and operations profe...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
How Data Centre Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs
Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enablin...
Sponsored By APC
-
Data Center Efficiency Calculator
The purpose of this tool is to show how various design decisions and operating conditions affect the efficiency and electrical costs of a typical generic data center. As the user inputs details regard...
Sponsored By APC
-
The Four Steps to Virtual Port Channel
Virtual port channel (VPC) takes redundancy to a new level in the data center. With the right equipment, you can leverage the functionalities of VPC by making all available paths usable and giving all...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
-
HP Advanced Data Center Network Architecture
This white paper reviews data center trends and describes HP solutions for building cost-effective, advanced data center networks that meet the evolving performance, reliability and agility demands of...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
-
Enlightened data center automation in the cloud age
How to achieve transformative efficiency gains - without disrupting IT Forward-looking companies are realizing that automation is an absolute prerequisite for migration to the cloud-and the key to a ...
Sponsored By HP
-
Managing performance in dynamic IT environments
The rise of virtualized, cloud, and software-defined data centers requires new approaches to performance management. These next-generation data centers virtualize IT resources to enable the pooling a...
Sponsored By HP
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Opacity Of Banks And Runs With Solvency
In absence of bank risk-taking behavior, opacity is defined as the inability of depositors, speculators and central banker to disentangle default risk and asset's return from the asset's value. The au...
Provided By Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Comment On "Reducing Social Security Pra Risk At The Individual Level: Lifecycle Funds And No-loss Strategies"
This paper considers an important practical issue that would be associated with the introduction of personal retirement accounts. Deciding that people should accumulate assets and use those assets to ...
Provided By University of Chicago Press
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Double Auction-Inspired Meta-Scheduling of Parallel Applications on Global Grids
Meta-schedulers map jobs to computational resources that are part of a grid, such as clusters, that in turn have their own local job schedulers. Existing Grid meta-schedulers either target system-cent...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Resource Provisioning based on Preempting Virtual Machines in Resource Sharing Environments
Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in large-scale resource sharing environments such as federated Grids. Recently, many resource management systems in these environments have started ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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An Agent-Based Service Discovery Algorithm Using Agent Directors for Grid Computing
Grid computing has emerged as a viable method to solve computational and data-intensive problems which are executable in various domains from business computing to scientific research. However, grid e...
Provided By Azad University
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Service Priority based Reliable Routing Path Select Method in Smart Grid Communication Network
The new challenges and schemes for the Smart Grid require high reliable transmission technologies to support various types of electrical services and applications. This paper concentrates the degree o...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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A Methodology For Aiding Investment Decision Between Assets In Stock Markets Using Artificial Neural Network
This paper outlines a methodology for aiding the decision making process for investment between two financial market assets (e.g. a risky asset versus a risk-free asset), using neural network architec...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Multi FPGA Based Novel Reconfigurable Hybrid Architecture for High Performance Computing
The growth of the verticals depending on the reconfigurable computing has been very fast. Satellite systems, land rovers, rocket launchers and other heavy duty high performance systems are making use ...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Design of a High Performance Reversible Multiplier
Reversible logic circuits are increasingly used in power minimization having applications such as low power CMOS design, optical information processing, DNA computing, bioinformatics, quantum computin...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Asset-Liability Management Under Time-Varying Investment Opportunities
In this paper, the authors propose multi-stage stochastic linear programming for asset-liability management under time-varying investment opportunities. They use a first-order unrestricted vector auto...
Provided By Munich Personal Repec Archive
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10 Ways to Increase Power System Availability in Data Centers Strategies for Ensuring Clean, Continuous Power to Essential IT Systems
IT was just another important business resource. Today, IT is the business for many companies. Without it, most organizations would be incapable of serving customers, collaborating with partners, deve...
Provided By Plant Services
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Grid Computing Based Security Service and Reliability Analysis to Complexity of Power System
Grid computing is an emerging technology for providing the high performance computing capability and collaboration mechanism for solving the collaborated and complex problems while using the existing ...
Provided By Hanoi University of Technology
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On Architecture of the Economic-Aware Data Grid
Data Grid has been adopted as the next-generation platform by many scientific communities to share, access, transport, process, and manage large data collections distributed worldwide. The increasing ...
Provided By Hanoi University of Technology
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An Evaluation of Job Scheduling Strategies for Divisible Loads on Grid Platforms
In this paper, the authors study distributed job scheduling in grid environments when each job is a DL application. The scheduling goal is to minimize the average steady-state job turnaround time. In ...
Provided By University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahu
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Valuation Issues For Investment Funds
When collateral or positions are fundamentally revalued to the point of illiquidity or frozen, funds holding assets or positions associated with affected assets may be unable to complete month-end val...
Provided By OGIER
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Urban Data Collector Protocol: Performance Evaluation With Different Suppression Techniques
This research was aimed at using Vehicular Adhoc NETworks (VANET) as infra-structure for an urban cyber-physical system in order to gather valuable data in a city. This paper is proposed an Urban Data...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Load Balancing Using High Performance Computing Cluster Programming
High-performance computing has created a new approach to science. Modeling is now a viable and respected alternative to the more traditional experiential and theoretical approaches. High performance i...
Provided By Rajasthan Technical University
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Design of Power Efficient Schema for Energy Optimization in Data Center With Massive Task Execution Using DVFS
The proposed system highlights a novel energy efficient technique by considering an entire datacenter using DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling). Unwanted power consumption was always a matter...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues