Abstract In this article, a special case of two coupled M/G/1-queues is considered, where servers are exposed to types jobs that distributed among the via random switch. model, asymptotic behavior workload buffer exceedance probabilities for single servers/both together/one (unspecified) server determined. Hereby, one has distinguish between either heavy-tailed or light-tailed. The results deri...

We present a coherent series of servers that can perform a large number of structure analyses on nuclear hormone receptors. These servers are part of the NucleaRDB project, which provides a powerful information system for nuclear hormone receptors. The computations performed by the servers include homology modelling, structure validation, calculating contacts, accessibility values, hydrogen bon...

We study the dynamic assignment of flexible servers to stations in the presence of setup costs that are incurred when servers move between stations. We focus on tandem lines with two stations and two servers with the goal of maximizing the long-run average profit. We investigate how the optimal server assignment policy for such systems depends on the magnitude of the setup costs, as well as on ...

A cluster-based server consists of a front-end dispatcher and multiple back-end servers. The dispatcher receives incoming jobs, and then decides how to assign them to back-end servers, which in turn serve the jobs according to some discipline. Clusterbased servers have been widely deployed, as they combine good performance with low costs. Several assignment policies have been proposed for clust...

Transputing without transputers is mostly concerned with porting software to make other processors behave like transputers. One key aspect of the hardware is to provide these other processors with links. In the board described in this paper, IEEE 1355 DS-Links are chosen to plug in to PCI, which offers good performance, is inexpensive, and pervasive. The board uses a PCI chip, two C101 parallel...