assured by a service-level agreement (SLA). Power consumption of these servers is becoming a serious concern in the design and operation of the hosting centers. The effects of high power consumption manifest not only in the costs spent in designing effective cooling systems to ward off the generated heat

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We survey general techniques and open problems in numerical linear algebra on parallel architectures. We first discuss basic principles of parallel processing, describing the costs of basic operations on parallel machines, including general principles for constructing efficient algorithms. We

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We discuss the design of an acquisitional query processor for data collection in sensor networks. Acquisitional issues are those that pertain to where, when, and how often data is physically acquired (sampled) and delivered to query processing operators. By focusing on the locations and costs