Towards self-configuring hardware for distributed computer systems

Proceedings - Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 241-249

  Wildstrom, Jonathan ^a,b   Stone, Peter ^a   Witchel, Emmett ^a   Mooney, Raymond J ^a   Dahlin, Mike ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECONFIGURING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; SELF-CONFIGURING HARDWARE;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745485481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAC.2005.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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