— Resource reservations in advance are a mature concept for the allocation of various resources, particularly in grid environments. Common grid toolkits support advance reservati...
Lars-Olof Burchard, Barry Linnert, Joerg Schneider
—A key benefit of utility data centers and cloud computing infrastructures is the level of consolidation they can offer to arbitrary guest applications, and the substantial savi...
Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Kar...
In large-scale clusters and computational grids, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on system performance and operatio...
Monitoring and management operations that query nodes based on their availability can be extremely useful in a variety of largescale distributed systems containing hundreds to thou...
Compared to the last decades, we have recently seen more and more governmental applications which are provided via the Internet directly to the citizens. Due to the long history o...
Andreas Ekelhart, Stefan Fenz, Thomas Neubauer, Ed...