Carrying out experiments in Information Retrieval is a heavy activity requiring fast tools to treat collections of significant size, and at the same time flexible tools to leave...
Modern scientific experiments can generate hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes of data that may furthermore be maintained in large numbers of relatively small fil...
Wantao Liu, Brian Tieman, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian...
Although there have been several attempts to create grid systems, there is no clear definition for grids. In this paper, a formal approach is presented for defining elementary func...
The electronics design industry is facing major challenges as transistors continue to decrease in size. The next generation of devices will be so small that the position of indivi...
Liangxiu Han, Asen Asenov, Dave Berry, Campbell Mi...
This paper presents a novel architecture called the MetaGrid based on Grid computing concepts for resource provisioning for wide-area network-enabled applications. Resource provis...