{ "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": [] }
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