Abstract: Node repair is a crucial problem in erasure-code-based distributed storage systems. An important metric for repair efficiency is the I/O cost, which equals the total amount of data accessed ...

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Abstract: Data centers are increasingly adopting renewable energy sources to mitigate environmental impact and reduce operational costs. However, effectively optimizing energy costs remains ...

What is an AI agent? An AI agent is a program that uses an LLM (like GPT-4) to reason and can call tools (search, calculate, look up data) in a loop until it completes a task. The catch: without ...