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Optimal "Big Data" Aggregation Systems - From Theory To Practical Application, William J. Culhane Iv
Optimal "Big Data" Aggregation Systems - From Theory To Practical Application, William J. Culhane Iv
Open Access Dissertations
The integration of computers into many facets of our lives has made the collection and storage of staggering amounts of data feasible. However, the data on its own is not so useful to us as the analysis and manipulation which allows manageable descriptive information to be extracted. New tools to extract this information from ever growing repositories of data are required.
Some of these analyses can take the form of a two phase problem which is easily distributed to take advantage of available computing power. The first phase involves computing some descriptive partial result from some subset of the original …
Improving Virtual Machine I/O Performance In Cloud Environments Via I/O Functionality Offloading, Sahan Bamunavita Gamage
Improving Virtual Machine I/O Performance In Cloud Environments Via I/O Functionality Offloading, Sahan Bamunavita Gamage
Open Access Dissertations
In recent years there has been a rapid growth in the adoption of cloud computing. A key technology that drives cloud computing is virtualization. In addition to enabling multi-tenancy in cloud environments, virtualizing hosts in the cloud environments has made management of hardware resources increasingly flexible. An important consequence of virtualizing hosts in the cloud is the negative impact it has on the I/O performance of the applications running in the virtual machines.
In this dissertation, we address the important problem of alleviating the negative impact of virtualization on I/O of the virtual machines. First, we show that virtual machine …
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of A Campus Computing Grid, Preston M. Smith
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of A Campus Computing Grid, Preston M. Smith
Purdue Polytechnic Masters Theses
Any major research institution has a substantial number of computer systems on its campus, often in the scale of tens of thousands. Given that a large amount of scientific computing is appropriate for execution in an opportunistic environment, a campus grid is an inexpensive way to build a powerful computational resource. What is missing, though, is a model for making an informed decision on the cost-effectives of a campus grid. In this thesis, the author describes a model for measuring the costs and benefits of building a campus computing resource based on the institution’s existing investment in computing hardware.
For …