Grid computing involves the transparent sharing of computational resources of many types by users across large geographic distances. The altruistic nature of many current grid reso...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Randa...
Modern scientific experiments can generate hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes of data that may furthermore be maintained in large numbers of relatively small fil...
Wantao Liu, Brian Tieman, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian...
— Existing workflow systems attempt to achieve high performance by intelligently scheduling tasks on resources, sometimes even attempting to move the largest data files on the hi...
Several works on grid computing have been proposed in the last years. However, most of them, including available software, can not deal properly with some issues related to contro...
Abstract. This paper investigates the problem of autonomously allocating a large number of independent, equal sized tasks on a distributed heterogeneous grid-like platform, using o...