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LAN Machine: A Virtualized Network for Developing & Testing Network & Cloud Applications on a Single Machine
Nov 2009
This paper proposes a platform that aims at creating a virtualized network on a single machine. It mainly focuses on network level virtualization. It aims at the consolidation of network level...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Virtualized Games for Teaching About Distributed Systems
Mar 2009
Complex distributed systems are increasingly important in modern computer science, yet many undergraduate curricula do not give students the opportunity to develop the skill sets necessary to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Optimized Virtualization With Citrix, Dell and Intel
Sep 2009
To succeed in today's increasingly complex and demanding business environments, IT departments must be able to take on greater workloads, support greater demand for user productivity and manage...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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White Papers
NetApp Virtualization Solutions for Citrix XenApp Environments
Feb 2009
Server virtualization has emerged as the most dramatic market trend of the decade and has resulted in millions of dollars in savings. The positive effects on business, technical and operational...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Accountability in Hosted Virtual Networks
Aug 2009
Virtualization enables multiple networks, each customized for a particular purpose, to run concurrently over a shared substrate. One such model for managing these virtual net-works is to create a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
VIRTU: An Open Virtualization Framework to Test Ground Systems
Oct 2009
The recent developments in virtualization change completely the panorama of the Hardware/OS deployment. New bottlenecks arise in deployment of application stacks where IT industry will spend most...
Provided by European Space Agency
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Webcasts
Virtualization Solution Portfolio for Hosting Providers
Sep 2009
The presenter will discuss Microsoft's current and future Virtualization portfolio of solutions for the hosting providers. Primarily, the presenter will discuss in detail the current Hyper-V V2 in...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Performance Aware Regeneration in Virtualized Multitier Applications
May 2009
Virtual machine technology enables highly agile system deployments in which components can be cheaply moved, cloned, and allocated controlled hardware resources. This paper examines in the context...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Fast Memory State Synchronization for Virtualization-Based Fault Tolerance
Apr 2009
Virtualization provides the possibility of whole machine migration and thus enables a new form of fault tolerance that is completely transparent to applications and operating systems. While...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
An Evaluation of Multiple Communication Interfaces for Virtualized SMP Clusters
Mar 2009
Clusters with multiple CPU nodes are becoming increasingly popular due to their cost/performance ratio. Due to its many potential advantages, interest in using virtualization on these systems has...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Modeling Virtualized Environments in Simalytic Models by Computing Missing Service Demand Parameters
Dec 2009
System Virtualization allows multiple O/S images to execute on a single physical host computer. Measuring the host resource usage is straightforward and the necessary tools are included with most...
Provided by Simalytic Solutions
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Whitepapers
Getting Virtualization Right: Five Virtualization Rules Every Organization Must Know
Aug 2009
The allure of virtualization is clear. For the business, it means faster time-to-market for new technology?enabled services and a strong foundation for new strategic initiatives, such as green...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
HEP Specific Benchmarks of Virtual Machines on Multi-Core CPU Architectures
May 2009
Virtualization technologies such as Xen can be used in order to satisfy the disparate and often incompatible system requirements of different user groups in shared-use computing facilities. This...
Provided by University of Victoria
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White Papers
On I/O Virtualization Management
Aug 2009
The quick adoption of virtualization technology in general and the advent of the Cloud business model entail new requirements on the structure and the configuration of back-end I/O systems....
Provided by University of Munich
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Whitepapers
EMC Performance Optimization for VMware Enabled by EMC PowerPath/VE
Sep 2009
This white paper is an overview of the tested features and performance enhancing technologies of EMC PowerPath /VE 5.4. The performance and reliability of EMC PowerPathVE are compared to the...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Virtualization Cookbook: Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on IBM System x
Aug 2009
As servers have grown increasingly powerful, with multiple cores per CPU socket, gigabytes of memory and terabytes of storage, system administrators have been looking for ways to leverage this...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Real-World Virtualization Testing on the HP ProLiant DL785 G5: A Network and Systems Architecture Consultant's Review of HP's x86 8-Socket Server
Feb 2009
The basis for this paper is to detail the suite of tests run on the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 as a single-entity server and in a virtualized infrastructure, and also to detail some potential...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Multiple z/OS Virtual Machines on z/VM
Apr 2009
This IBM Redpaper describes some of the possible ways to configure a z/VM system and a set of z/OS virtual machines for use in testing z/OS-based tools and products. By supplying each tester with...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Virtualization in the Core of the Network: New Dimensions of Flexibility and Scale in Service Provider Networks
Feb 2009
This paper is essential reading for business decision makers (up to the CxO level) in both service provider and large enterprise environments. The paper describes a unique solution set for...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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White Papers
A Platform Built for Server Virtualization: Cisco Unified Computing System
Dec 2009
This paper discusses how the core features of the Cisco Unified Computing System contribute to the ease of deployment, management, performance, and security of virtualized environments. It...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Scalability Study for Deploying VMware View on Cisco UCS and EMC Symmetrix V-Max Systems
Jun 2009
This paper reports the results of a study evaluating the scalability of the VMware View virtual desktop environment on a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) connected to EMC Symmetrix V-Max...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Webcasts
IBM Systems Director Announcement
Jan 2010
Welcome to the new world of heterogenous virtualization management! Does one struggle with managing multiple virtualization technologies for multiple server platforms? In this webcast, IBM is...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Forrester on Virtualization: Unraveling Advanced Virtualization Architectures & Techniques
Jan 2010
Virtualization continues to be the dominant buzz-word for businesses wanting to reduce IT costs, and ultimately create a more flexible, efficient and automated applications workload environment...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Reducing Server Costs With PowerVM: Results of User-Based Research
Jan 2010
There is much industry discussion about the bottom-line potential of server virtualization. Vendor claims and analyst perspectives often, however, do not reflect real user experiences. This...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Improving Availability With Virtualization and IBM~s System x Servers
Jan 2010
The session will begin by reviewing how virtualization addresses typical pain points currently faced by customers, highlighting the key technology trends with the adoption of x86 virtualization....
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Making the Business Case for Embedded Virtualization
Jan 2010
The presenter of this webcast discusses virtualization and how it helps engineers, scientists, and embedded designers do more with multicore hardware. Also learn how virtualization can be used to...
Provided by National Instruments
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Webcasts
Exploring How Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) Enables Virtualization
Jan 2010
The attendee will learn from the experts about Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) and how it helps make virtualization possible. The presenter will explain step-by-step how and when...
Provided by National Instruments
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White Papers
Virtual Organization Clusters
Nov 2008
Sharing traditional clusters based on multiprogramming systems among different Virtual Organizations (VOs) can lead to complex situations resulting from the differing software requirements of each...
Provided by Clemson University
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Webcasts
Hands-On: Configuring and Using a Virtualized System
Jan 2010
Though different software packages may have different approaches to setting up virtualized systems, many of the basic principles remain constant. The presenter of this webcast will outline the...
Provided by National Instruments
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Webcasts
Choose Your Embedded Virtualization Software Wisely
Jan 2010
There are many papers and Web sites that discuss the advantages of virtualization technology for embedded applications, but how does one actually get started choosing a software package? What is...
Provided by National Instruments
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White Papers
Low-Power Amdahl-Balanced Blades for Data Intensive Computing
Aug 2009
Enterprise and scientific data sets double every year, forcing similar growths in storage size and power consumption. As a consequence, current system architectures used to build data warehouses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
Public Sector: Better Business Continuity for Uncertain Times
Feb 2010
Governments across the country are relying more than ever on IT systems and online services to provide critical services. Not only do these systems increase the efficiency and effectiveness, but...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
VMware View 4 QuickStart Series Part 2: Managing Desktops
Feb 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn the software implementation of the PC-over-IP protocol and how to install and configure composer.
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
VMware View 4 QuickStart Series Part 1: Install and Configure
Feb 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn the main features of VMware View and installing and configuring VMware View Connection Server.
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Automating Oracle Business Continuity With VMware
Feb 2010
The dependencies associated with business continuity and disaster recovery make it difficult to implement an automated solution. With VMware and EMC technologies, one can automate failover and...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Physical to Virtual 101: Oracle Apps and Databases
Feb 2010
Oracle applications and databases can be virtualized on VMware vSphere, creating powerful advantages in manageability, efficiency, and performance. The attendee of this webcast will find out how...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Symmetrix V-Max - New Capabilities That Deliver
Feb 2010
EMC Symmetrix V-Max and VMware vSphere are a perfect match for the virtual environment. The latest release of Symmetrix V-Max delivers the enhancements one need for the virtual environment,...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Deploying VMware SRM - Navigating the Options
Jan 2010
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) enables faster, more reliable disaster recovery for the virtualized infrastructure. But it is only one component of a comprehensive business continuity...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Shipper Cuts IT Costs, Increases Availability and Agility, Using Virtualization
Feb 2010
Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) offers twice-weekly freight and cargo shipping services to Alaska and prides itself on reliable service with electronic tracking of every business step. As TOTE...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Data Center Virtualization Q&A
Dec 2007
When considering virtualizing the IT resources, one has to consider all the critical junctures of the network topology. What is the current environment? Where are the users coming from, the branch...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Podcasts
Using IBM Discovery Tools to Understand Existing and Composite Applications
Aug 2007
In this podcast, the speaker talks about how IBM discovery tools, such as IBM WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer and Asset Transformation Workbench, help users discover and understand mainframe...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Transforming the Learning Society in Hong Kong
Feb 2011
The Chinese University of Hong Kong's has more than 14,300 post-graduate and undergraduate students. Their challenges are to meet the need for faster and more flexible provisioning of computer...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Preference Location-Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Dec 2011
Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) is a challenge due to the fact that the network graph is intermittently connected. However, routing benefits considerably if one can take advantage of...
Provided by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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White Papers
The MAP3S Static-and-Regular Mesh Simulation and Wavefront Parallel-Programming Patterns
Nov 2008
This paper presents the Simulation and Wave-front parallel-programming patterns of the MAP3S pattern-based parallel programming system for distributed-memory environments. Both patterns target...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Enhancing Reliability for Virtual Machines Via Continual Migration
Sep 2009
The authors' approach is to design and implement a continual migration strategy for virtual machines to achieve automatic failure recovery. By continually and transparently propagating virtual...
Provided by Beijing University Of Technology
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White Papers
K-Fault Tolerance of the Internet AS Graph
Apr 2011
Internet disruptions such as the Northeast Blackout and the Taiwan earthquake highlight the fragility of today's Internet. The authors' goal in this paper is to investigate the robustness of...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Virtualization as an Approach in the Development of IT System Implementation Process
Oct 2011
Virtual administration of IT system implementation processes is now possible in small and micro-companies, characterized by relative simplicity and marked recurrence of business processes....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Fault-Driven Re-Scheduling for Improving System-Level Fault Resilience
Oct 2007
The productivity of HPC system is determined not only by their performance, but also by their reliability. The conventional method to limit the impact of failures is check-pointing. However,...
Provided by Illinois Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Compiling for Vector-Thread Architectures
Apr 2008
Vector-Thread (VT) architectures exploit multiple forms of parallelism simultaneously. This paper describes a compiler for the Scale VT architecture, which takes advantage of the VT features. The...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Lithe: Enabling Efficient Composition of Parallel Libraries
Mar 2009
For the software industry to take advantage of multicore processors, the authors must allow programmers to arbitrarily compose parallel libraries without sacrificing performance. They argue that...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
STAMP: Stanford Transactional Applications for Multi-Processing
Sep 2008
Transactional Memory (TM) is emerging as a promising technology to simplify parallel programming. While several TM systems have been proposed in the research literature, the authors are still...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Automatic Distributed-Memory Parallelization and Code Generation Using the Polyhedral Framework
Sep 2011
Automatic parallelization is a hard problem. Even in domains where it has been successful, parallelization for distributed-memory parallel architectures is considered very complex, and addressing...
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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White Papers
Combined Iterative and Model-Driven Optimization in an Automatic Parallelization Framework
Jul 2010
Today's multi-core era places significant demands on an optimizing compiler, which must parallelize programs, exploit memory hierarchy, and leverage the ever-increasing SIMD capabilities of modern...
Provided by Ohio State University
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White Papers
Implementing and Evaluating a Model Checker for Transactional Memory Systems
Jan 2010
Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising technique that addresses the difficulty of parallel programming. Since TM takes responsibility for all concurrency control, TM systems are highly...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Scalable Network Emulation - The NET Approach
Jan 2012
Network emulation is an efficient method for evaluating distributed applications and communication protocols by combining the benefits of real world experiments and network simulation. The process...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
TS-PVM: A Fault Tolerant PVM Extension for Real Time Applications
Oct 2009
In this paper, a fault tolerant extension of the de facto message passing system parallel virtual machine, TS- parallel virtual machine, is introduced. This extension enables real time...
Provided by Zarqa Private University
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White Papers
VLSI Realization of Artificial Neural Networks With Improved Fault Tolerance
Jun 2010
The feed forward neural network which is a model of the cerebral neural network has in-built fault tolerance. The conventional back-propagation algorithm reduces errors between the learning...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Empirical Study of Least Sensitive FFANN for Weight- Stuck-at Zero Fault
May 2010
An important consideration for neural hardware is its sensitivity to input and weight errors. In this paper, an empirical study is performed to analyze the sensitivity of feed-forward neural...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Toward the Verification of a Simple Hypervisor
Sep 2011
Virtualization promises significant benefits in security, efficiency, dependability, and cost. Achieving these benefits depends upon the reliability of the underlying virtual machine monitors...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
A Parallel and Distributed Framework for Constraint Solving
Aug 2011
With the increased availability of affordable parallel and distributed hardware, programming models for these architectures has become the focus of significant attention. Constraint programming,...
Provided by Experimental Economics Center
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White Papers
Symmetric and Folded Tori Connected Torus Network
Jan 2011
Hierarchical interconnection networks provide high performance at low cost by exploring the locality that exists in the communication patterns of massively parallel computers. A Symmetric Tori...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Development of Semantic-CBR Framework for Virtual Enterprises in Project Management
Mar 2011
The information communication technology definitely encouraging global collaboration among enterprises on a project basis makes virtual enterprises possible and popular. However, the existing...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Real time Virtual View Generation For Augmented Virtuality System
May 2011
This paper describes a novel method of real-time virtual view generation for augmented virtuality system. The aim is to rectify the displacement between virtual eye position and video cameras...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
DAFT: Decoupled Acyclic Fault Tolerance
Sep 2010
Higher transistor counts, lower voltage levels, and reduced noise margin increase the susceptibility of multicore processors to transient faults. Redundant hardware modules can detect such errors,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Runtime Asynchronous Fault Tolerance Via Speculation
Jan 2012
Transient faults are emerging as a critical reliability concern in modern microprocessors. Redundant hardware solutions are commonly deployed to detect transient faults, but they are less flexible...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
TH3D: A Two-Handed Interaction Framework for Desktop Virtual Environment
Jul 2011
This paper describes a two-handed interaction framework for desktop virtual environment, called TH3D. The design goal of this framework is to support the device-independent, task-centered, and...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Order Bi-spectrum For Bearing Fault Monitoring and Diagnosis Under Run-up Condition
Sep 2011
Varying speed machinery condition detection and fault diagnosis are more difficult due to non-stationary machine dynamics and vibration. Therefore, most conventional signal processing methods...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Efficient and Scalable Thread-level Parallel Algorithms for Sorting Multisets on Multi-core Systems
Jan 2012
By distributing adaptively the data blocks to the processing cores to balance their computation loads and applying the strategy of "The extremum of the extremums" to select the data with the same...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Resource Analyses for Parallel and Distributed Coordination
Oct 2011
Predicting the resources that are consumed by a program component is crucial for many parallel or distributed systems. In this paper, the main resources of interest are execution time, space and...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Implementation of Real-Time Distributed Discrete-Event Execution With Fault Tolerance
Nov 2007
The authors build on PTIDES, a programming model for distributed embedded systems that uses Discrete-Event (DE) models as program specifications. PTIDES improves on distributed DE execution by...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
More is Less: Denial-of-Service Attacks and Solutions in Many-Core On-Chip Networks
Jul 2010
A many-core system is expected to outperform a traditional single-core system by enabling multiple applications to be executed on separate cores in parallel, given the generous assumption that the...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Microarchitectures for Managing Chip Revenues Under Process Variations
Jun 2007
As transistor feature sizes continue to shrink into the sub-90nm range and beyond, the effects of process variations on critical path delay and chip yields have amplified. A common concept to...
Provided by Northwestern University
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White Papers
Progress Guarantees When Composing Lock-Free Objects
Aug 2011
Highly concurrent and reliable data objects are vital for parallel programming. Lock-free shared data objects are highly concurrent and guarantee that at least one operation, from a set of...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Improving the Performance of Hypervisor-Based Fault Tolerance
Jan 2010
Hypervisor-Based Fault Tolerance (HBFT), a checkpoint-recovery mechanism, is an emerging approach to sustaining mission-critical applications. Based on virtualization technology, HBFT provides an...
Provided by Peking University
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White Papers
An Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Parallel Applications on Clusters
Aug 2007
In the past decade cluster computing platforms have been widely applied to support a variety of scientific and commercial applications, many of which are parallel in nature. However, scheduling...
Provided by Auburn University
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White Papers
Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications Running on Heterogeneous Clusters
Sep 2007
High performance clusters have been widely used to provide amazing computing capability for both commercial and scientific applications. However, huge power consumption has prevented the further...
Provided by Auburn University
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White Papers
DARAW: A New Write Buffer to Improve Parallel I/O Energy-Efficiency
Mar 2009
In the past decades, parallel I/O systems have been used widely to support scientific and commercial applications. New data centers today employ huge quantities of I/O systems, which consume a...
Provided by Auburn University
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White Papers
Tinkertoy Parallel Programming: A Case Study With Zoltan
Jan 2012
As the need for complex parallel simulation software grows, better strategies for efficient and effective software development become important. The authors advocate a toolkit - or "Tinkertoy" -...
Provided by Sandia National Laboratories
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Webcasts
The Real Fault Tolerant
Jan 2012
Fault Tolerant is a pretty common term in the world of IT, also an often misused and misleading term. For 3 decades, Stratus Technologies has been engineering and manufacturing purpose built Fault...
Provided by Stratus Technologies
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Webcasts
Virtualization Meets Fault Tolerance - Raising the Hardware Bar
Jan 2012
With virtualization, one are putting all their eggs in one basket! In this webcast, the presenter describes about virtualization that meets Fault Tolerance. The presenter also explains how Stratus...
Provided by Stratus Technologies
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Webcasts
Reducing Server Costs With PowerVM: Results of User-Based Research
Jan 2010
There is much industry discussion about the bottom-line potential of server virtualization. Vendor claims and analyst perspectives often, however, do not reflect real user experiences. This...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Improving Availability With Virtualization and IBM~s System x Servers
Jan 2010
The session will begin by reviewing how virtualization addresses typical pain points currently faced by customers, highlighting the key technology trends with the adoption of x86 virtualization....
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Making the Business Case for Embedded Virtualization
Jan 2010
The presenter of this webcast discusses virtualization and how it helps engineers, scientists, and embedded designers do more with multicore hardware. Also learn how virtualization can be used to...
Provided by National Instruments
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Webcasts
Exploring How Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) Enables Virtualization
Jan 2010
The attendee will learn from the experts about Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) and how it helps make virtualization possible. The presenter will explain step-by-step how and when...
Provided by National Instruments
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White Papers
Virtual Organization Clusters
Nov 2008
Sharing traditional clusters based on multiprogramming systems among different Virtual Organizations (VOs) can lead to complex situations resulting from the differing software requirements of each...
Provided by Clemson University
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Webcasts
Hands-On: Configuring and Using a Virtualized System
Jan 2010
Though different software packages may have different approaches to setting up virtualized systems, many of the basic principles remain constant. The presenter of this webcast will outline the...
Provided by National Instruments
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Webcasts
Choose Your Embedded Virtualization Software Wisely
Jan 2010
There are many papers and Web sites that discuss the advantages of virtualization technology for embedded applications, but how does one actually get started choosing a software package? What is...
Provided by National Instruments
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White Papers
Low-Power Amdahl-Balanced Blades for Data Intensive Computing
Aug 2009
Enterprise and scientific data sets double every year, forcing similar growths in storage size and power consumption. As a consequence, current system architectures used to build data warehouses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
Public Sector: Better Business Continuity for Uncertain Times
Feb 2010
Governments across the country are relying more than ever on IT systems and online services to provide critical services. Not only do these systems increase the efficiency and effectiveness, but...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
VMware View 4 QuickStart Series Part 2: Managing Desktops
Feb 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn the software implementation of the PC-over-IP protocol and how to install and configure composer.
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
VMware View 4 QuickStart Series Part 1: Install and Configure
Feb 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn the main features of VMware View and installing and configuring VMware View Connection Server.
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Automating Oracle Business Continuity With VMware
Feb 2010
The dependencies associated with business continuity and disaster recovery make it difficult to implement an automated solution. With VMware and EMC technologies, one can automate failover and...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Physical to Virtual 101: Oracle Apps and Databases
Feb 2010
Oracle applications and databases can be virtualized on VMware vSphere, creating powerful advantages in manageability, efficiency, and performance. The attendee of this webcast will find out how...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Symmetrix V-Max - New Capabilities That Deliver
Feb 2010
EMC Symmetrix V-Max and VMware vSphere are a perfect match for the virtual environment. The latest release of Symmetrix V-Max delivers the enhancements one need for the virtual environment,...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Deploying VMware SRM - Navigating the Options
Jan 2010
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) enables faster, more reliable disaster recovery for the virtualized infrastructure. But it is only one component of a comprehensive business continuity...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Shipper Cuts IT Costs, Increases Availability and Agility, Using Virtualization
Feb 2010
Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) offers twice-weekly freight and cargo shipping services to Alaska and prides itself on reliable service with electronic tracking of every business step. As TOTE...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Data Center Virtualization Q&A
Dec 2007
When considering virtualizing the IT resources, one has to consider all the critical junctures of the network topology. What is the current environment? Where are the users coming from, the branch...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Datacenter Virtualization: Enabling a Dynamic Datacenter With Microsoft Virtualization
Jul 2008
This paper examines strategies for moving an organization toward more dynamic IT using datacenter virtualization technologies. Datacenters evolve from manual and reactionary to automated and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Data Center Virtualization and Orchestration: Business and Financial Justification
Jul 2007
Over the past several years, virtualization of server, network, and storage resources has received a lot of IT, media, and vendor attention because of its promise for reducing both capital and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
SAP on the HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade: Deploy and Optimize SAP Resources in Real Time Based on Business Priorities
Jun 2008
In a world where business conditions can change in an instant, the IT infrastructure has to be flexible. The success of the enterprise and the business depend on deploying solutions that maximize...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
10GbE ISCSI Performance With Blade Servers
Oct 2007
To gain the full benefits of blade server technologies and to provide headroom for future growth requires the latest in networking technology. Today that means 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) - the...
Provided by BLADE Network Technologies
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White Papers
Disaggregated Memory for Expansion and Sharing in Blade Servers
Jun 2009
Analysis of technology and application trends reveals a growing imbalance in the peak compute-to-memory-capacity ratio for future servers. At the same time, the fraction contributed by memory...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Building BugTolerant Routers With Virtualization
May 2008
Implementation bugs are a highly critical problem in wide area networks. The software running on core routers is subject to vulnerabilities, coding mistakes, and misconfiguration. Unfortunately,...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
Virtualizing the Data Plane Through Source Code Merging
Aug 2008
Virtualization is a key technology that enables multiple research groups to test new protocols simultaneously on the same physical network and also allows service providers to incrementally add...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
GPU Virtualization on VMware's Hosted I/O Architecture
Dec 2008
Modern Graphics co-Processors (GPUs) can produce high fidelity images several orders of magnitude faster than general purpose CPUs, and this performance expectation is rapidly becoming ubiquitous...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Ground Station Virtualization
Jan 2010
This paper discusses the application of the end-to-end principle to ground station systems. It states that lower layers of systems should support the widest possible variety of services and...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen
Jan 2010
This paper reports on improvements to Xen's networking performance resulting from the re-design and the re-implementation of certain aspects of its network virtualization and better support for...
Provided by Rice University
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White Papers
Predictor Virtualization
Mar 2008
Many hardware optimizations rely on collecting information about program behavior at runtime. This information is stored in lookup tables. To be accurate and effective, these optimizations usually...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Application Performance Modeling in a Virtualized Environment
Nov 2009
Performance models provide the ability to predict application performance for a given set of hardware resources and are used for capacity planning and resource management. Traditional performance...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
The Heisenberg Measuring Uncertainty in Lightweight Virtualization Testbeds
Jul 2009
The need for large-scale experimentation testbeds involving several hundred, or even thousands, of nodes is undeniable. Testbeds including Emulab, and Deter are heavily used for both research and...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Are Virtualized Overlay Networks Too Much of a Good Thing?
Feb 2009
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have recently become one of the hottest topics in OS research. Starting with the explosion of popularity of Napster, researchers have become interested because of the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Parallel Objects: Virtualization and In-Process Components
Jan 2010
Developing complex parallel applications that run efficiently on large parallel machines is dif-cult because the programmer has to handle many interrelated issues. Two issues that are of interest...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
VEAL: Virtualized Execution Accelerator for Loops
Mar 2008
Performance improvement solely through transistor scaling is becoming more and more difficult, thus it is increasingly common to see domain specific accelerators used in conjunction with general...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Towards an Understanding of Anti-Virtualization and Anti-Debugging Behavior in Modern Malware
Apr 2008
Many threats that plague today's networks (e.g., phishing, botnets, denial of service attacks) are enabled by a complex ecosystem of attack programs commonly called malware. To combat these...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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TrapperKeeper: Using Virtualization to Add Type-Awareness to File Systems
May 2009
TrapperKeeper is a system that enables the development of type-aware file system functionality. In contrast to existing plug-in-based architectures that require a software developer to write and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Does Virtualization Make Disk Scheduling Passé?
Jun 2009
Analysis of technology and application trends reveals a growing imbalance in the peak compute-to-memory-capacity ratio for future servers. At the same time, the fraction contributed by memory...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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At-Scale Experimentation With Resource Virtualization in a Metro Optical Testbed
May 2008
This paper describes several efforts to explore integrated approaches to resource virtualization in a metro-scale optical testbed dubbed BEN (Breakable Experimental Network) located in Research...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Efficient Data Management Support for Virtualized Service Providers
Nov 2008
Virtualization has been lately introduced for supporting and simplifying service providers' management with promising results. Nevertheless, using virtualization introduces also new challenges...
Provided by Technical University of Catalonia
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Elastic Management of Tasks in Virtualized Environments
Dec 2009
Nowadays, service providers in the Cloud offer complex services ready to be used as it was a commodity like water or electricity to their customers. A key technology for this approach is...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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VrtProf: Vertical Profiling for System Virtualization
Sep 2009
As data centers and end users become increasingly reliant on virtualization technology, more efficient and accurate methods of profiling such systems are needed. However, under virtualization the...
Provided by University of California
