The map-reduce model requires users to express their problem in terms of a map function that processes single records in a stream, and a reduce function that merges all mapped out...
Jackson H. C. Yeung, C. C. Tsang, Kuen Hung Tsoi, ...
Abstract. We describe how the ASSIST parallel programming environment can be used to run parallel programs on collections of heterogeneous workstations and evaluate the scalability...
Marco Aldinucci, Sonia Campa, Massimo Coppola, Sil...
Computational Grids potentially offer low cost, readily available, and large-scale high-performance platforms. For the parallel execution of programs, however, computational GRIDs ...
Abdallah Al Zain, Philip W. Trinder, Greg Michaels...
Graph theoretic problems are representative of fundamental computations in traditional and emerging scientific disciplines like scientific computing, computational biology and b...
As high-speed networks make it easier to use distributed resources, it becomes increasingly common that applications and their data are not colocated. Users have traditionally add...
Ian T. Foster, David Kohr, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Jac...