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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Virtex 4 Field Programmable Gate Array Based 32 Bit FPM
FPGAs are increasingly being used in the high performance and scientific computing community to implement floating-point based hardware accelerators. The authors present FPGA floating-point multiplica...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Demand Shaping to Achieve Steady Electricity Consumption With Load Balancing in a Smart Grid
The purpose of this paper is to study conflicting objectives between the grid operator and consumers in a future smart grid. Traditionally, customers in electricity grids have different demand profile...
Provided By Cornell University
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Automotive Group Reduces Servers and Boosts Performance
In today's market for new and used cars, customers are often in the driver's seat, actively communicating with dealers about what they need at all hours. Their challenges are to Provide always-on avai...
Provided By Cisco
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Markov Game Analysis for Attack-Defense of Power Networks Under Possible Misinformation
In this paper, the authors use zero-sum Markov games to model these interactions subject to underlying uncertainties of real-world events and actions. They solve equilibrium mixed strategies of the pl...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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HybridMR: A Hierarchical MapReduce Scheduler for Hybrid Data Centers
Virtualized environments are attractive because they simplify cluster management, while facilitating cost-effective workload consolidation. As a result, virtual machines, either in public clouds or in...
Provided By Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union
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Grouping Based User Demand Aware Job Scheduling Approach for Computational Grid
Grid Computing is a high performance computing that solves complicated tasks and provides powerful computing abilities. Scheduler is very much responsible for effective utilization of resources and le...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Using Slack Reservation Strategy to Improve User QoS in Computational Grids
Advance reservation is an effective technique to realize end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for grid applications. However, excessive advance reservation will result in low resource utiliz...
Provided By Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Load Sharing for Optimistic Parallel Simulations on Multi?Core Machines
Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) is based on the partitioning of the simulation model into distinct Logical Processes (LPs), each one modeling a portion of the entire system, which are allowe...
Provided By University of Rochester
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Performance Analysis of MPI (mpi4py) on Diskless Cluster Environment in Ubuntu
Now-a-days Cluster computing has become a crying need for the processing of large scale data. For computing large amount of data, which need huge execution time, the run time can be reduced using mult...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Survey on Task Assignment Techniques in Hadoop
MapReduce is an implementation for processing large scale data parallelly. Actual benefits of MapReduce occur when this framework is implemented in large scale, shared nothing cluster. MapReduce frame...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Integrating Mobile Devices by Using Efficient Resource Scheduling in Grid Computing
Grid computing is defined as "Flexible, Secure, Coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources". However, supporting mobile interfaces in the Grid c...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Failure Recovery Using RSWF Algorithm for Advanced Reservation in Optical Grid
For utilizing distributed resources in optical grid environment advanced reservations play a very crucial role. For applications like the co-allocation of distributed resources and deadline driven app...
Provided By Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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London Borough Council Saves Millions With Virtual Desktops
Olympic Park, the borough had the world's attention during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Their challenges are to improve worker flexibility to cope with London 2012 Olympic and Paralym...
Provided By Cisco
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Tackling Co-existence and Fairness Challenges in Autonomous Demand Side Management
Consider a smart grid system in which every user may or may not choose to participate in Demand Side Management (DSM). This will lead to a general co-existence problem between participant and non-part...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Novel Demand Control Policy for Improving Quality of Power Usage in Smart Grid
Smart grid has emerged as a promising technology for enabling bi-directional communication between the power company and its users to facilitate intelligent, robust, and resilient next generation powe...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Adaptive Electricity Scheduling With Quality of Usage Guarantees in Microgrids
MicroGrid (MG) is a key component for future Smart Grid (SG) deployment with high potentials. Balancing the supply and demand of energy is one of the most important goals of MG management. In this pap...
Provided By Auburn University
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Distributed Management of Energy-Efficient Lightpaths for Computational Grids
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are contributing to a large amount of the global electricity consumption. Due to tremendous increase in the bandwidth demands and utilisation of non-r...
Provided By University of Otago
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Adaptive Provisioning for Evolving Virtual Network Request in Cloud-based Datacenters
Cloud based datacenters provide on demand services and resources, both transparently and cost effectively. These services and applications are typically hosted and run on the servers located in interc...
Provided By Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Resource Contention-Aware Virtual Machine Management for Enterprise Applications
Consolidating Virtual Machines (VMs) in data centers is desirable as it reduces hardware and power costs. However the performances of VMs on shared physical servers are not isolated from each other as...
Provided By Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Topology Control with a Limited Number of Relays
Network longevity and connectivity are key design goals in any wireless sensor network deployment. In this paper, the authors consider the placement of relay nodes and individual transmission power as...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Machine Learning Approach to Data Center Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks
Data Centers face considerable challenges in seamless integration of telemetry and control functions. These functions are essential to management tasks related to power capping, cooling, reliability, ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Using Segmentation for Confidentiality Aware Image Storage and Retrieval on Clouds
Cloud computing is ideally suited for hosting applications with large images because clouds can perform high performance computations and communications at very low upfront cost. While the benefits of...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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EDR: An Efficient Demand Response Scheme for Achieving Forward Secrecy in Smart Grid
Compared with traditional power grid, smart grid has several distinguished features, i.e., distributed energy, large capacity, robust to load fluctuations, and close consumer-grid interactions. Demand...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Load Distribution Vector Based Attack Strategies against Power Grid Systems
Security issues in complex systems such as power grid, communication network, Internet, among others have attracted wide attention from academic, government and industry. In this paper, the authors in...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Network Architecture, Security Issues, and Hardware Implementation of a Home Area Network for Smart Grid
In this paper, the authors discusses aims, architecture, and security issues of Smart Grid, taking care of the lesson learned at University of Pisa in research projects on smart energy and grid. A key...
Provided By Hindawi Publishing
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A New Scalable Parallel DBSCAN Algorithm Using the Disjoint-Set Data Structure
DBSCAN is a well-known density based clustering algorithm capable of discovering arbitrary shaped clusters and eliminating noise data. However, parallelization of DBSCAN is challenging as it exhibits ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Dynamic Deferral of Workload for Capacity Provisioning in Data Centers
Recent increase in energy prices has led researchers to find better ways for capacity provisioning in data centers to reduce energy wastage due to the variation in workload. This paper explores the op...
Provided By Shandong Institute of Business And Technology
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Data Insertion & Archiving in Erasure-Coding Based Large-Scale Storage Systems
Given the vast volume of data that needs to be stored reliably, many data-centers and large-scale file systems have started using erasure codes to achieve reliable storage while keeping the storage ov...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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Digital Media Leader Revolutionizes Network Performance to Meet Rapid Growth
From streaming media to online distribution and supporting 3D video, the market for digital multimedia is growing fast, and DG is an industry leader. Their challenges are to accelerate network speed t...
Provided By Cisco
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A Survey of Data Mining Techniques for Smart Grid Systems
Electricity generated through steam and hydro - turbines have been serving one since ages. It has reached its limits. Outages, blackouts are becoming inevitable. So, there is a need to develop a syste...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Cloud Computing with Related Enabling Technologies
Cloud Computing is a concept that has been defined differently by many and there seem not to be a consensus. Despite these views, cloud computing is not a complete new idea as it has intricate connect...
Provided By Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES)
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Lessons Learned When Building a Greenfield High Performance Computing Ecosystem
Faced with a fragmented research computing environment and growing needs for high performance computing resources, Michigan State University established the High Performance Computing Center in 2005 t...
Provided By Michigan State University
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Discovering Structure in Unstructured I/O
Checkpointing is the predominant storage driver in today's petascale supercomputers and is expected to remain as such in tomorrow's exascale supercomputers. Users typically prefer to checkpoint into a...
Provided By ETH Zurich
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Mapping Tightly-Coupled Applications on Volatile Resources
Platforms that comprise volatile processors, such as desktop grids, have been traditionally used for executing independent-task applications. In this paper the authors study the scheduling of tightly-...
Provided By University of Hawai'i
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Advanced I/O Virtualization Architecture for Consolidating High-Performance Workloads
One of the key enhancements in the current generation of Oracle Exalogic systems-and the focus of this whitepaper-is Oracle's incorporation of virtualized InfiniBand I/O interconnects using Single Roo...
Provided By Oracle
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From Silos to the Cloud: A Case Study in Global Efficiency
Interested in consolidating and aligning your global data centers? Read this case study about a global IT Services Consultancy who went through that very process with the help of NTT Communications, u...
Provided By NTT Communications
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A Survey on Resources Discovery Approaches in Distributed Computational Grids
Grid computing enables systems to share geographically distributed resources as they pursue common goals. In a large-scale Grid systems discovery of heterogeneous resources is crucial to achieving sca...
Provided By Karunya University
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A Review: Scheduling in Grid Environment
Grid computing came into being and is currently an active research area. One motivation of Grid computing is to aggregate the power of widely distributed resources, and provide non-trivial services to...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Hybrid Trust Management Using Grid Scheduling
A grid system is a dynamic and distributed environment which contains numerous entities and resources, and is involved in large-scale processing and resource sharing. One of the critical issues is to ...
Provided By EuroJournals
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ACO Implementation Using GNLT for Resource Allocation in Grids
Computational grids are probably among the most heterogeneous computing systems. However, they are very attractive for their potential computational power. Their heterogeneity is especially perceptibl...
Provided By EuroJournals
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System Reliability of Fault Tolerant Data Center
A Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) in system operations is a weak point of system reliability. Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) of system operations is equal to the shortage component's MTTF in system. A Tie...
Provided By IARIA
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IaaS Clouds Vs. Clusters for HPC: A Performance Study
The increasing amount of data collected in the fields of physics and bio-informatics allows researchers to build realistic, and therefore accurate, models/simulations and gain a deeper understanding o...
Provided By IARIA
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Towards Green HPC Blueprints
Effectiveness and power consumption is becoming a major problem in high-performance computing. Numbers of researchers are working on methodologies in order to increase efficiency of these systems on h...
Provided By IARIA
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Numerical Methods for Solving Turbulent Flows by Using Parallel Technologies
Parallel implementation of algorithm of numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations for large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence is presented in this research. The Dynamic Smagorinsky model is appl...
Provided By Scientific Research
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Optimization of Security Communication Wired Network by Means of Genetic Algorithms
The realization of security wired network is very critical when the network itself must be installed in an environment full of restrictions and constrains such as historical palaces, characterized by ...
Provided By Scientific Research
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An Extension of RankBoost for Semi-Supervised Learning of Ranking Functions
The purpose of this paper was a semi-supervised learning method of alternatives ranking functions. This method extends the supervised RankBoost algorithm to combines labeled and unlabeled data. RankBo...
Provided By IARIA
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Reducing Electricity Cost of Smart Appliances Via Energy Buffering Framework in Smart Grid
To reduce the long term electricity cost of Smart Appliances (SAs) with deferrable operation time in smart grid, the authors propose a novel energy buffering framework to intelligently schedule the Di...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Exploiting Demand Response in Web-Based Energy-Aware Smart Homes
Energy conservation is a global issue with tremendous environmental implications. By 2030, the global energy demand will double. High demands and environmental concerns, force the transformation of el...
Provided By IARIA
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Using Multitasking and SSD Disks for Optimising Computing Cluster Energy-Efficiency
The authors tested how Solid-State Drives (SSD) and multitasking, i.e., running more than one task per CPU core, affect performance and energy consumption in I/O intensive data analysis jobs in High-E...
Provided By IARIA
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Optimization of Energy and Emissions in High-Performance Grid Computing Data Centres
At an early stage of information and communications technology and high-performance computing, performance and reliability were two important factors in research and development. It was highly essenti...
Provided By IARIA
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Sensors and IEDs Required by Smart Distribution Applications
In order to meet the electric energy needs at the beginning of this new millennium, utilities need to provide high quality power over a reliable grid, to satisfy customer's growing service quality exp...
Provided By IARIA
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Critical Friend Model: A Vision Towards Inter-Cooperative Grid Communities
Much work is under way within the distributed computing community in order to assign a job to an appropriate resource discovered from a fully decentralized and heterogeneous infrastructure with reason...
Provided By IARIA
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Towards Efficient Energy Management: Defining HEMS and Smart Grid Objectives
Energy consumption has increased considerably in the last years. The way to reduce and make energy consumption more efficient has become of great interest for researchers. One of the research areas is...
Provided By IARIA
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Jim Crosskey: How Does A Building Become A VERGE Building?
In this webcast, the presenter explains how building technologies are converging with information and energy technologies, even vehicles and to create high-performance buildings, at the San Francisco ...
Provided By GreenBiz Group
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Parallel Grid Library for Rapid and Flexible Simulation Development
The authors present an easy to use and flexible grid library for developing highly scalable parallel simulations. The distributed cartesian cell-refinable grid (dccrg) supports adaptive mesh refinemen...
Provided By University of Heilongjiang
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A New Degree of Freedom for Memory Allocation in Clusters
Improvements in parallel computing hardware usually involve increments in the number of available resources for a given application such as the number of computing cores and the amount of memory. In t...
Provided By SpringCM Inc
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Steps Toward Managing Lineage Metadata in Grid Clusters
The lineage of a piece of data is of utility to a wide range of domains. Several application-specific extensions have been built to facilitate tracking the origin of the output that the software produ...
Provided By Sri Durga Group
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A Survey of Data Mining Techniques for Smart Grid Systems
Electricity generated through steam and hydro - turbines have been serving one since ages. It has reached its limits. Outages, blackouts are becoming inevitable. So, there is a need to develop a syste...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Virtex 4 Field Programmable Gate Array Based 32 Bit FPM
FPGAs are increasingly being used in the high performance and scientific computing community to implement floating-point based hardware accelerators. The authors present FPGA floating-point multiplica...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Smart (In-Home) Power Scheduling for Demand Response on the Smart Grid
This paper proposes a power scheduling-based communication protocol for in-home appliances connected over home area network and receiving real-time electricity prices via a smart meter. Specifically, ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Decentralized Scheduling of Bursty Workload on Computing Grids
Bursty workloads are often observed in a variety of systems such as grid services, multi-tier architectures, and large storage systems. Studies have shown that such burstiness can dramatically degrade...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Combined Studies of Power Electronics and Communication Networks for the Smart Grid
The modernization of the current power grid has brought forward many requirements in order to make possible the vision of a smarter grid. This paper presents these challenges and the current achieveme...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Job Scheduling Algorithm for Computational Grid in Grid Computing Environment
Grid computing has emerged as a distributed methodology that coordinates the resources that are spread in the heterogeneous distributed environment. Grid Computing allow sharing of resources from hete...
Provided By International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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A New Scalable Parallel DBSCAN Algorithm Using the Disjoint-Set Data Structure
DBSCAN is a well-known density based clustering algorithm capable of discovering arbitrary shaped clusters and eliminating noise data. However, parallelization of DBSCAN is challenging as it exhibits ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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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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A General Framework for Efficient Continuous Multidimensional Top-K Query Processing in Sensor Networks
Top-k query has long been a crucial problem in multiple fields of computer science, such as data processing and information retrieval. In emerging cyber-physical systems, where there can be a large nu...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Provably-Efficient Job Scheduling for Energy and Fairness in Geographically Distributed Data Centers
Decreasing the soaring energy cost is imperative in large data centers. Meanwhile, limited computational resources need to be fairly allocated among different organizations. Latency is another major c...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Cutting Down Electricity Cost in Internet Data Centers by Using Energy Storage
Electricity consumption comprises a significant fraction of total operating cost in data centers. System operators are required to reduce electricity bill as much as possible. In this paper, the autho...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Data Center Energy Cost Minimization: A Spatio-Temporal Scheduling Approach
Cloud computing is supported by an infrastructure known as Internet Data Center (IDC). As cloud computing thrives, the energy consumption and cost for IDCs are exploding. There is growing interest in ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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eco-IDC: Trade Delay for Energy Cost With Service Delay Guarantee for Internet Data Centers
Cloud computing services are becoming integral part of people's daily life. These services are supported by Internet Data Centers (IDCs). As demand for cloud computing services soars, energy consumed ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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An Observation on Performance Analysis of Grid Scheduler
Grid scheduler allocates resources to task. In this paper, the authors proposed architecture of grid scheduler for task scheduling in grid. The goal of the scheduler in this paper is minimize make-spa...
Provided By International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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A Survey on Grid Computing Approach
Grid computing enables virtual organizations to share geographically distributed resources as they pursue common goals, assuming the absence of central location, central control, omniscience, and an e...
Provided By International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Grouping Based User Demand Aware Job Scheduling Approach for Computational Grid
Grid Computing is a high performance computing that solves complicated tasks and provides powerful computing abilities. Scheduler is very much responsible for effective utilization of resources and le...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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A Simulation Based Approach to Show Various Factors Affecting the GIDL in Matlab
As low-power design has become a concern in digital VLSI design, especially for portable and high performance. So leakage current is of prime concern. When the MOSFET is in off-state, a significant le...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Gartner Research: Picking the Right Server Type to Solve Your Data Center Space, Power and Heat Problems
The type of server you install in a data center can have a big impact - positive or negative - on the space, power and cooling required. Knowing and choosing the appropriate server type can extend the...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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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...
Provided By IBM
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Build A High-Performance Security Organization
Companies must not only protect their organization from danger but must continue to compete in the marketplace. Companies that ignore security do so at their own risk. Read this Forrester Research Inc...
Provided By IBM
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Transitioning Business Continuity To The Cloud
In the past, server, storage and data center redundancy were the only options that met corporate resilience objectives. Read this white paper to gain an understanding of the resiliency challenges faci...
Provided By IBM
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Smart Data Center Solutions
Traditional concerns of data center stakeholders are keeping their applications running and their networks scalable, available, and secure. However, over the last five years, demand for processing pow...
Provided By Panduit
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Innovator Gets Scalability on Demand
From modest beginnings, Lonza has grown into a leading supplier to the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and life-science industries worldwide. Their challenge is to transform data center network agility, b...
Provided By Cisco