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Resource Management on a VM Based Computer Cluster for Scientific Computing

December 19, 2012 12:00am PST

In the last ten years host virtualization has brought a revolution in the way almost every activity related to information technology is thought of and performed. The use of virtualization for HPC...

Provided by: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

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Phenomenology Tools on Cloud Infrastructures Using OpenStack

December 19, 2012 12:00am PST

The authors present a new environment for computations in particle physics phenomenology employing recent developments in cloud computing. On this environment users can create and manage "Virtual"...

Provided by: University of Zagreb

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Demystifying VLAN Trunk Protocol

December 19, 2012 12:00am PST

Of the many protocols that Cisco has created over the years, one of the most feared and often misunderstood is VTP, or Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Trunk Protocol. The original intention was...

Provided by: Global Knowledge

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Server Virtualization for Dummies

December 18, 2012 12:00am PST

Making Everything Easier! - like they always do, "For Dummies" are back with an edition about server virtualisation. Download this book to find: -The benefits of application-driven virtualisation...

Provided by: Oracle

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An Interactive Graph-Based Automation Assistant: A Case Study to Manage the GIPSY's Distributed Multi-Tier Run-Time System

December 18, 2012 12:00am PST

The GIPSY system provides a framework for a distributed multi-tier demand-driven evaluation of heterogeneous programs, in which certain tiers can generate demands, while others can respond to...

Provided by: Concordia University

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Cloud services: The threat of side channels

December 17, 2012 9:43am PST

Cloud services offer convenience and potential cost savings, but a potential security issue may negate the benefits. Michael Kassner digs into some of the latest research.

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Dynamic Profit Maximization of Cognitive Mobile Virtual Network Operator

December 17, 2012 12:00am PST

The authors study the profit maximization problem of a cognitive virtual network operator in a dynamic network environment. They consider a downlink OFDM communication system with various network...

Provided by: University of Hohenheim

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Automated Swim (Single Window Infrastructure Management) for Cloud

December 17, 2012 12:00am PST

Data centers manage complex server environments, including physical and virtual machines, across a wide variety of platforms, and often in geographically dispersed locations. Information...

Provided by: Interscience Open Access Journals

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Maximize Your Network with SolarWinds Top 5 Free Virtualization Management Tools

December 14, 2012 12:00am PST

Supervising a virtualized infrastructure can be quite tricky. In order to keep your system running smoothly you must be able to balance performance, capacity, configuration and usage, all in...

Provided by: SolarWinds

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Adaptive Scheduling in Real-Time Systems Through Period Adjustment

December 14, 2012 12:00am PST

Real-time system technology traditionally developed for safety critical systems, has now been extended to support multimedia systems and virtual reality. A large number of real-time application,...

Provided by: Indian Institute of Science

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Towards a Hybrid Energy Efficient Multi-Tree-Based Optimized Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks

December 14, 2012 12:00am PST

This paper considers the problem of designing power efficient routing with guaranteed delivery for sensor networks with unknown geographic locations. The authors propose HECTOR, a hybrid energy...

Provided by: University of Otago

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Maximize Your Network with SolarWinds Top 5 Free Virtualization Management Tools

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

Supervising a virtualized infrastructure can be quite tricky. In order to keep your system running smoothly you must be able to balance performance, capacity, configuration and usage, all in...

Provided by: SolarWinds

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MAClets: Active MAC Protocols Over Hard-Coded Devices

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

The authors introduce MAClets; software programs uploaded and executed on-demand over wireless cards, and devised to change the card's real-time medium access control operation. MAClets permit...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Sensor-Wise Methodology to Face NBTI Stress of NoC Buffers

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) are a key component for the new many-core architectures, from the performance and reliability standpoints. Unfortunately, continuous scaling of CMOS technology poses severe...

Provided by: European Design and Automation Association

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Towards TCAM-Based Scalable Virtual Routers

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

As the key building block for enabling network virtualization, virtual routers have attracted much attention recently. In a virtual router platform, multiple virtual router instances coexist, each...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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VMTorrent: Scalable P2P Virtual Machine Streaming

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

Clouds commonly store Virtual Machine (VM) images on networked storage. This poses a serious potential scalability bottleneck as launching a single fresh VM instance requires, at minimum, several...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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VALE, a Switched Ethernet for Virtual Machines

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

The growing popularity of virtual machines is pushing the demand for high performance communication between them. Past solutions have seen the use of hardware assistance, in the form of "PCI...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Maximize Your Network with SolarWinds Top 5 Free Virtualization Management Tools

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

Supervising a virtualized infrastructure can be quite tricky. In order to keep your system running smoothly you must be able to balance performance, capacity, configuration and usage, all in...

Provided by: SolarWinds

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Reproducible Network Experiments Using Container-Based Emulation

December 13, 2012 12:00am PST

In an ideal world, all research papers would be runnable: simply click to replicate all results, using the same setup as the authors. One approach to enable runnable network systems papers is...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery