Virtual machines provide flexible, powerful execution environments for Grid computing, offering isolation and security mechanisms complementary to operating systems, customization...
Ivan Krsul, Arijit Ganguly, Jian Zhang, José...
The Grid computing vision promises to provide the needed platform for a new and more demanding range of applications. For this promise to become true, a number of hurdles, includin...
Alexandru Iosup, Catalin Dumitrescu, Dick H. J. Ep...
Grid computing is emerging as a new infrastructure to provide collaborative and secure resource sharing over multiple geographically distributed organizations. In this scenario, r...
Tania Gomes Ramos, Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves d...
Across a wide variety of fields, huge datasets are being collected and accumulated at a dramatical pace. The datasets addressed by individual applications are very often heteroge...
Typical Grid computing scenarios involve many distributed hardware and software components. The more components that are involved, the more likely it is that one of them may fail....
Dan Gunter, Brian Tierney, Craig E. Tull, Vibha Vi...