Alvaro

Overhead: overhead is generally considered any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other.
PTAS: polynomial-time approximation scheme.
FPTAS: fully polynomial-time approximation scheme.
Scalability: is the ability of a computer application or product (hardware or software) to continue to function well when it is changed in size or volume in order to meet a user need. Typically, the rescaling is to a larger size or volume.
Latency: The time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head.
Parameter Sweep Applications: Are a class of application in which the same code is run multiple times using unique sets of input parameter values. This includes varying one parameter over a range of values or varying multiple parameters over a large multidimensional space.
Bag of Tasks: BoT applications are those parallel applications whose tasks are independent.
Host Speed: Measure of the host speed.
Host Load: The load of the host due to the local processes.
Task Size: The completion time of a task in a host with Host Speed = 1, and Host Load = 0.
Lockstep systems are redundant computing systems that run the same set of operations at the same time in parallel. The output from lockstep operations can be compared to determine if there has been a fault.
RMS: Resource Management and Systems.
VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration.

How do you handle millions of tasks?
How do you handle failures?
Small jobs are the pain!!!
Large jobs are a pain too!!!
Simulation for distributed applications still taking baby steps
It's estimated that computers spend over 80% of their time sorting
Insertion Sort is generally considered a good solution if only a few elements need sorting, because it is such a short algorithm. If you are dealing with a large amount of data, however, insertion sort is a poor choice because it is too time consuming. In that case, better algorithms are known, such as mergesort, quicksort and heapsort

Artigo 11 - Considera-se dissertação de mestrado o trabalho
supervisionado que demonstre capacidade de sistematização da
literatura existente sobre o tema tratado e capacidade de utilização
dos métodos e técnicas de investigação científica, tecnológica ou
artística.

Alvaro H. Mamani-Aliaga