{
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "0728a400aa1c86fe"
    }
  ], 
  "end_iso_date": "1991-08-20", 
  "notes": [
    {
      "italic": "yes", 
      "note": "My first autotuning experience - at that time, we had removable disks with only 360Kb, and it was extremely challenging to archive files on multiple disks. As a practical solution, I created a tool that checked free space on all disks and size of all files to randomly find the best packing strategy (within amount of time specified by a user). Interestingly, it worked as good as a greedy algorithm but about an order of magnitude faster which was important on very slow computers of that time. This was my first successful autotuning experience that I reused in all my further research."
    }
  ], 
  "start_iso_date": "1991-08-01", 
  "title": "Productivity tool", 
  "to": "automatically pack files to remote and removable disks with limited space using fast and random strategy instead of greedy one", 
  "type": {
    "name": "software"
  }, 
  "urls": []
}

{}