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ICAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Hardness of Approximation and Greedy Algorithms for the Adaptation Problem in Virtual Environments
— Over the past decade, wide-area distributed computing has emerged as a powerful computing paradigm. Virtual machines greatly simplify wide-area distributed computing ing the ab...
Ananth I. Sundararaj, Manan Sanghi, John R. Lange,...
HPDC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Effective Prediction of Job Processing Times in a Large-Scale Grid Environment
Grid applications that use a considerable number of processors for their computations need effective predictions of the expected computation times on the different nodes. Currentl...
Menno Dobber, Robert D. van der Mei, Ger Koole
ISSADS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Database System Architecture - A Walk Through Time: From Centralized Platform to Mobile Computing - Keynote Address
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
Ali R. Hurson, Yu Jiao
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Environment mobility: moving the desktop around
In this position paper, we focus on issues related to middleware support for software mobility in ad hoc and pervasive systems. In particular, we are interested in moving the comp...
Dag Johansen, Håvard D. Johansen, Robbert va...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Managing the construction and use of Functional Performance Models in a Grid environment
— This paper presents a tool, the Performance Model Manager, which addresses the complexity of the construction and management of a set of Functional Performance Models on a comp...
Robert Higgins, Alexey L. Lastovetsky