Governor: Autonomic throttling for aggressive idle resource scavenging

Proceedings - Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 64-75

  Strickland, Jonathan W ^a   Freeh, Vincent W ^a   Ma, Xiaosong ^a,b   Vazhkudai, Sudharshan S ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC THROTTLING; PRIORITY BASED METHODS; RESOURCE SCAVENGING; USER AUTONOMY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCAVENGING; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33745508736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAC.2005.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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