Replication in grid file systems can significantly improves I/O performance of data-intensive applications. However, most of existing replication techniques apply to individual ...
—Large-scale online applications such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) require large amount of computing resources that support many players interacting simultaneous...
This paper describes a novel technique for establishing a virtual file system that allows data to be transferred user-transparently and on-demand across computing and storage serve...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia, Jos&eac...
Because of its inter-organisational, collaborative use of computational resources, grid computing presents a severe interoperability challenge to grid application developers. Diffe...
Dirk Gorissen, Gunther Stuer, Kurt Vanmechelen, Ja...
TextGrid is a new Grid project in the framework of the German D-Grid initiative, with the aim to deploy Grid technologies for humanities scholars working on historical (German) te...