Factors involved in the performance of computations on Beowulf clusters.
Motivated by applications in queueing fluid models and ruin theory, we analyze the asymptotics of , where , i = 1,...,n, are independent fractional Brownian motions with Hurst parameters and λ₁,...,λₙ > 0. The asymptotics takes one of three different qualitative forms, depending on the value of .