Name
Abstract | ||
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Resource borrowing is a common underlying approach in grid computing and thin-client computing. In both cases, external processes borrow resources that would otherwise be delivered to the interactive processes of end-users, creating contention that slows these processes and decreases the comfort of the end-users. How resource borrowing and user comfort are related is not well understood and thus resource borrowing tends to be extremely conservative. To address this lack of understanding, we have developed a sophisticated distributed application for directly measuring user comfort with the borrowing of CPU time, memory space, and disk bandwidth. Using this tool, we have conducted a controlled user study with qualitative and quantitative results that are of direct interest to the designers of grid and thin-client systems. We have found that resource borrowing can be quite aggressive without creating user discomfort, particularly in the case of memory and disk. We also describe an on-going Internet-wide study using our tool. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2004 | 10.1109/HPDC.2004.1323536 | HPDC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
client-server systems,grid computing,resource allocation,CPU time,Internet,disk bandwidth,grid computing,memory space,resource borrowing,thin-client computing,user comfort | Grid computing,Computer science,CPU time,Client server systems,Bandwidth (signal processing),Resource allocation,Grid,Distributed computing | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
1082-8907 | 0-7695-2175-4 | 32 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
2.37 | 20 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashish Gupta | 1 | 292 | 56.19 |
| B. Lin | 2 | 1405 | 126.39 |
| Peter A. Dinda | 3 | 150 | 10.94 |