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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Data centres"”.
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Latency-driven performance in data centres
Data centre based cloud computing has revolutionised the way businesses use computing infrastructure. Instead of building their own data centres, companies rent computing resources and deploy their applications on cloud hardware. Providing customers with well-defined application performance …
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Energy Adaptive Infrastructure for Sustainable Cloud Data Centres
… and pollution. Among those ICT equipments, data centres play obviously a major role with the rise of the Cloud computing paradigm. In the recent years, researchers have focused on reducing the energy consumption of data centres. Furthermore, future environmentally friendly data centres are …
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Flexible and efficient computation in large data centres
… online computer applications rely on large-scale data analyses to offer personalised and improved products. These large-scale analyses are performed on distributed data processing execution engines that run on thousands of networked machines housed within an individual data centre. These execution …
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A Framework for Efficient Management of Fault Tolerance in Cloud Data Centres and High-Performance Computing Systems: An Investigation and Performance analysis of a Cloud Based Virtual Machine Success and Failure Rate in a typical Cloud Computing Environment and Prediction Methods
… to solve advanced computation problem. As cloud datacentres continue to grow in scale and complexity, the risk of failure of Virtual Machines (VM) and hosts running several jobs and processing large amount of user request increases and consequently becomes even more difficult to predict potential …
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Optimising data centre operation by removing the transport bottleneck
Data centres lie at the heart of almost every service on the Internet. Data centres are used to provide search results, to power social media, to store and index email, to host “cloud” applications, for online retail and to provide a myriad of other web services. Consequently the more efficient …
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Public sector data centre consolidation (PSEDCC): Enhancing the management of information communication technology infrastructure in Namibia
… challenges faced by the Namibian Public Sector Data Centres. In addition, the above challenges had led many organizations to rationalize the way they design and manage their ICT infrastructure resources. In this study, the above challenges have led to the introduction of Public Sector Data …
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Operating system support for warehouse-scale computing
… are increasingly backed by large-scale data centres. Systems software in these data centre environments, however, faces substantial challenges: the lack of uniform resource abstractions makes sharing and resource management inefficient, infrastructure software lacks end-to-end access …
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Efficient access network selection and data demand prediction for 5G systems
… surge in the demand for mobile broadband data. Also, the recent popularity of bandwidth intensive applications such as Netflix and YouTube has contributed to this demand for the wireless resources. In order to cope with this massive demand, fifth generation (5G) of wireless network is on …
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Environmental management in Antarctica using geographical information systems
… stored and coordinated at national and regional data centres, using GIS where appropriate to handle the spatial data. At an international level, an Antarctic Treaty Data Centre (ATDC) is proposed to receive and coordinate data and directories from participating national and regional centres, to …
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SDN based security solutions for multi-tenancy NFV
… changed traffic patterns within the enterprise data centres. Therefore, advanced technologies are needed to improve traditional network deployments to enable them to handle the changing network patterns. Software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) are innovative …
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An open vendor agnostic fog computing framework for mission critical and data dense applications
… in many real-world situations particularly where data dense and mission critical applications with stringent requirements are concerned. Cloud computing offers unlimited on-demand computing, storage and networking power for industry to leverage. However, as its scope and scale continues to expand, …
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An efficient model for latency optimisation for 5G-enabled IoT applications in smart farming
… smart farming applications. The data generated by IoT devices such as sensors, cameras, and actuators in intelligent farming applications are growing exponentially. Traditional methods of processing and storing IoT data usually include cloud data centres, which are often far from …
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Effective incorporation of FPGA based processing in server architectures
With ever increasing data volumes and computing complexities, power-efficient alternatives, particularly Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), need to be explored for industrial-scale data centres. Whilst FPGA device sizes have increased and associated design tools have matured, there are still …
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Barriers to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Credit Scoring Systems: An Exploratory Study in Jordanian Banks
… expertise, AI training, safety and security, and data availability and validity); (2) organisational (organisational attitude, top management support, financial resources, and AI strategy; and (3) environmental (coercive pressures – government and AI governance, Central Bank and AI initiatives, …
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Chemo and biodetection in liquid with organic transistor
… well-equipped with centralized and powerful data centres. The rising of miniaturized technology has made possible to conceive the realization of portable devices, i.e. chemical sensors capable to analyse small quantities in situ. Nowadays, the availability of portable devices allows to test …
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Aggregated service consolidation by multi-server virtualization
… agreed service levels to their customers. Data centres have taken on server virtualization due to its benefits such as reduced operational cost, centralized administration, enhanced security, load balancing and improved hardware utilization. The resource management capabilities offered by …
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Energy Efficiency in Office Computing Environments
… technology. Whilst research has focused on data centres recently, this thesis identifies office computing environments as significant consumers of energy. Office computing environments offer great potential for energy savings: On one hand, such environments consist of a large number of …
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Combinatorial optimisation for sustainable cloud computing
… problems arising in workload management in data centres. This problem extends on the well-known bin packing problem. We develop competing models and optimisation techniques to solve this offline packing problem with state-of-the-art solvers. We then cast this newly defined combinatorial …
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Federated Linear Dimensionality Reduction
In recent years, the explosive rate of dataset expansion has offered the ability for researchers to access an unprecedented amount of information. Moreover, in addition to actual dataset size increases, the types and locations of data generators are more heterogeneous than ever -ranging from …
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A multi-tenant database framework for software and cloud computing applications
… accessing computing resources from internal data centres to external service providers. This approach is rapidly becoming a standard for offering cost effective and elastic computing services that are used over the internet. Software as a service (SaaS) is one of the Cloud Computing service …
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