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Scientific simulation leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) systems is crucial for modeling complex systems and phenomena in fields such as astrophysics, climate science, and fluid dynamics, generating massive datasets that often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Wenqi Jia , Ying Huang , Jian Xu , Zhewen Hu , Sian Jin , Jiannan Tian , Yuede Ji , Miao Yin

We present a scheduler that improves cluster utilization and job completion times by packing tasks having multi-resource requirements and inter-dependencies. While the problem is algorithmically very hard, we achieve near-optimality on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Robert Grandl , Srikanth Kandula , Sriram Rao , Aditya Akella , Janardhan Kulkarni

Performing efficient resource provisioning is a fundamental aspect for any resource provider. Local Resource Management Systems (LRMS) have been used in data centers for decades in order to obtain the best usage of the resources, providing…

Clustering algorithms are often used to find subpopulations in exploratory data analysis workflows. Not only the clusters themselves, but also their shape can represent meaningful subpopulations. In this paper, we present FLASC, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 D. M. Bot , J. Peeters , J. Liesenborgs , J. Aerts

In this report we demonstrate the potential utility of resource allocation management systems that use virtual machine technology for sharing parallel computing resources among competing jobs. We formalize the resource allocation problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Mark Stillwell , David Schanzenbach , Frédéric Vivien , Henri Casanova

We propose throughput and cost optimal job scheduling algorithms in cloud computing platforms offering Infrastructure as a Service. We first consider online migration and propose job scheduling algorithms to minimize job migration and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haritha K , Chandramani Singh

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated significant potential in augmenting scarce datasets for object detection tasks. Nevertheless, most recent models rely on resource-intensive full fine-tuning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Alvaro Patricio , Atabak Dehban , Rodrigo Ventura

We present and formalize a general approach for profiling workload by leveraging only a priori available static metadata to supply appropriate resource needs. Understanding the requirements and characteristics of a workload's runtime is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Andrea Morichetta , Stefan Nastic , Victor Casamayor Pujol , Schahram Dustdar

As mobile networks proliferate, we are experiencing a strong diversification of services, which requires greater flexibility from the existing network. Network slicing is proposed as a promising solution for resource utilization in 5G and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yongshuai Liu , Jiaxin Ding , Zhi-Li Zhang , Xin Liu

Modern cloud data warehouses store data in micro-partitions and rely on metadata (e.g., zonemaps) for efficient data pruning during query processing. Maintaining data clustering in a large-scale table is crucial for effective data pruning.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yipeng Liu , Renfei Zhou , Jiaqi Yan , Huanchen Zhang

The paradigm of big data is characterized by the need to collect and process data sets of great volume, arriving at the systems with great velocity, in a variety of formats. Spark is a widely used big data processing system that can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Duarte M. Nascimento , Miguel Ferreira , Miguel L. Pardal

Recently, to deliver services directly to the network edge, fog computing, an emerging and developing technology, acts as a layer between the cloud and the IoT worlds. The cloud or fog computing nodes could be selected by IoTs applications…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Ahmed A. A. Gad-Elrab , Almohammady S. Alsharkawy , Mahmoud E. Embabi , Ahmed Sobhi , Farouk A. Emara

Function-as-a-Service is a novel type of cloud service used for creating distributed applications and utilizing computing resources. Application developer supplies source code of cloud functions, which are small applications or application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Maciej Pawlik , Kamil Figiela , Maciej Malawski

The growing popularity of workflows in the cloud domain promoted the development of sophisticated autoscaling policies that allow automatic allocation and deallocation of resources. However, many state-of-the-art autoscaling policies for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Alexey Ilyushkin , André Bauer , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos , Ewa Deelman , Alexandru Iosup

Organizations around the world schedule jobs (programs) regularly to perform various tasks dictated by their end users. With the major movement towards using a cloud computing infrastructure, our organization follows a hybrid approach with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sunandita Patra , Mehtab Pathan , Mahmoud Mahfouz , Parisa Zehtabi , Wided Ouaja , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

The increasing popularity of cloud computing has resulted in a proliferation of data centers. Effective placement of data centers improves network performance and minimizes clients' perceived latency. The problem of determining the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wuqiong Luo , Wee Peng Tay , Peng Sun , Yonggang Wen

The state-of-art of the technology focuses on data processing to deal with massive amount of data. Cloud computing is an emerging technology, which enables one to accomplish the aforementioned objective, leading towards improved business…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-01 K. S. Rashmi , V. Suma , M. Vaidehi

Latency-sensitive and bandwidth-intensive stream processing applications are dominant traffic generators over the Internet network. A stream consists of a continuous sequence of data elements, which require processing in nearly real-time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Narges Mehran , Dragi Kimovski , Radu Prodan

Cloud computing is an emerging technology in distributed computing which facilitates pay per model as per user demand and requirement.Cloud consist of a collection of virtual machine which includes both computational and storage facility.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Dr. Amit Agarwal , Saloni Jain

As more and more users begin to use the cloud for their computing needs, datacenter operators are increasingly pressed to effectively allocate their resources among these client users. Yet while much work has been done in this area,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Carlee Joe-Wong , Soumya Sen