Abstract: In cloud computing, how to reasonably allocate computing resources for batch jobs to ensure the load balance of dynamic clusters and meet user requests is an important and challenging task.

Either way, let’s not be in denial about it. Credit...Illustration by Christoph Niemann Supported by By Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are the hosts of The Times’s “Hard ...

“Make something people want.” That’s the famous Y Combinator slogan—and the results speak for themselves. Over the years, YC has launched some of the most iconic startups of our time, including Airbnb ...

There are two senses of 'batch' at play: One is R's sense of batch, and the other is the sense of 'batch job'. On the cluster, you may need to run R in a batch job, so you need some way to tell R to ...

The first day of spring is Thursday. The spring equinox will occur at 5:01 a.m. EDT on Thursday. An equinox occurs when the Earth's equator aligns with the sun, resulting in a "nearly" equal amount of ...

Meteorological spring began on March 1, while astronomical spring starts on the vernal equinox. The vernal equinox marks the astronomical first day of spring and falls on Thursday, March 20, 2025.