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Amaethon – A Web Application For Farm Management And An Assessment Of Its Utility, Tyler Yero
Amaethon – A Web Application For Farm Management And An Assessment Of Its Utility, Tyler Yero
Master's Theses
Amaethon is a web application that is designed for enterprise farm management. It takes a job typically performed with spreadsheets, paper, or custom software and puts it on the web. Farm administration personnel may use it to schedule farm operations and manage their resources and equipment. A survey was con- ducted to assess Amaethon’s user interface design. Participants in the survey were two groups of students and a small group of agriculture professionals. Among other results, the survey indicated that a calendar interface inside Amaethon was preferred, and statistically no less effective, than a map interface. This is despite the …
Lottery Scheduling In The Linux Kernel: A Closer Look, David Zepp
Lottery Scheduling In The Linux Kernel: A Closer Look, David Zepp
Master's Theses
This paper presents an implementation of a lottery scheduler, presented from design through debugging to performance testing. Desirable characteristics of a general purpose scheduler include low overhead, good overall system performance for a variety of process types, and fair scheduling behavior. Testing is performed, along with an analysis of the results measuring the lottery scheduler against these characteristics. Lottery scheduling is found to provide better than average control over the relative execution rates of processes. The results show that lottery scheduling functions as a good mechanism for sharing the CPU fairly between users that are competing for the resource. While …
An Interactive Visualization Model For Analyzing Data Storage System Workloads, Steven Charubhat Pungdumri
An Interactive Visualization Model For Analyzing Data Storage System Workloads, Steven Charubhat Pungdumri
Master's Theses
The performance of hard disks has become increasingly important as the volume of data storage increases. At the bottom level of large-scale storage networks is the hard disk. Despite the importance of hard drives in a storage network, it is often difficult to analyze the performance of hard disks due to the sheer size of the datasets seen by hard disks. Additionally, hard drive workloads can have several multi-dimensional characteristics, such as access time, queue depth and block-address space. The result is that hard drive workloads are extremely diverse and large, making extracting meaningful information from hard drive workloads very …