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Reclaiming <endeca_term>Spare Capacity</endeca_term> and Improving Aperiodic Response Times in Real-Time Environments

Reclaiming Spare Capacity and Improving Aperiodic Response Times in Real-Time Environments

...for improving the response times of aperiodic tasks by identifying nonuniformly distributed spare capacity - because of skips or sporadic tasks - in the schedule and adding... Read more

28 January, 2011
Algebraic Connectivity Metric for <endeca_term>Spare Capacity</endeca_term> Allocation Problem in Survivable Networks

Algebraic Connectivity Metric for Spare Capacity Allocation Problem in Survivable Networks

For studying survivability of telecommunication networks, one should be able to differentiate topologies of networks by... Read more

7 January, 2011
Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing

Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing

Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer losses. Amazon... Read more

5 October, 2011
Network Re-Engineering Using Successive Survivable Routing

Network Re-Engineering Using Successive Survivable Routing

The Spare Capacity Assignment (SCA) problem is a constrained non-linear optimization problem which... Read more

19 July, 2010
Windows 8 Server Developer Preview

Windows 8 Server Developer Preview

Windows 8 Server, now in pre-beta Developer Preview mode, contains multiple feature enhancements — including a new version of Hyper-V — that make it easier to deploy, manage and secure. Read more

14 September, 2011 by Simon Bisson

Host servers get disk performance boost

...spindles in order to get performance, which often results in lots of spare capacity, says Virsto, adding that it liberates storage admin time too as... Read more

28 June, 2011

Why the net neutrality brigade needs to calm down

I'm starting to get very annoyed at some elements of the net neutrality brigade. This is mainly because I am... Read more

4 January, 2011
High Performance Vehicular Connectivity With Opportunistic Erasure Coding

High Performance Vehicular Connectivity With Opportunistic Erasure Coding

...Unlike existing erasure coding methods, which are oblivious to the level of spare capacity along a path, OEC transmits coded packets only during instantaneous openings... Read more

4 May, 2012
Residual power monitor 1.6

Residual power monitor 1.6

...the rest of the battery itself. Rate the last remaining power supply (spare capacity of power supply) and power consumption, the peak amount of power... Read more

24 November, 2011
Gas Capacity & Pipe Size Calculator 001

Gas Capacity & Pipe Size Calculator 001

...6 appliances and the application will tell you if there is any spare capacity to add another appliance.Singe Appliance Pipe SizerEnter the load of... Read more

21 October, 2011
A Review on Placement of Wavelength Converters in WDM P-Cycle Network

A Review on Placement of Wavelength Converters in WDM P-Cycle Network

...costs associated with the number of wavelength converters required and the total spare capacity needed for protection Read more

1 May, 2011

Amazon outage: What it means for the cloud

...own hardware - I would rather let someone else bear the cost of spare capacity." Clive Longbottom, service director at business and IT analyst Quocirca told... Read more

26 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet
Using a Multi-Agent System for Network Management

Using a Multi-Agent System for Network Management

...that make changes over the same resources (i.e. bandwidth, restoration, and spare capacity planning) enabling its integration. The system is able to dynamically manage... Read more

1 January, 2011
A Simple Generalized Approach to Node Failure Recovery With Span-Protecting p-Cycles

A Simple Generalized Approach to Node Failure Recovery With Span-Protecting p-Cycles

...node. The authors also showed that with relatively little, if any, extra spare capacity, the principle is also amenable to explicit design of networks for... Read more

1 November, 2010

Grid computing luring mainstream backers

IBM and Microsoft are two of the major companies backing grid computing, but there are still difficulties in persuading corporate buyers to invest Read more

21 February, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

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