On checkpointing and heavy-tails in unreliable computing environments

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 13-15

  Bossie, Craig ^b   Fiorini, Pierre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINTING; COMPLETION TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; JOB EXECUTION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

JOB ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750297342     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: 01635999     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168134.1168142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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