Scheduling parallel and distributed applications efficiently onto grid environments is a difficult task and a great variety of scheduling heuristics have been developed aiming to ...
Alexandre Ceasar Tavares Vidal, Francisco Jos&eacu...
When data resides on tertiary storage, clustering is the key to achieving high retrieval performance. However, a straightforward approach to clustering massive amounts of data on ...
Resource management for ad hoc grids is challenging due to the participation of heterogeneous, dynamic, autonomous and ephemeral nodes. Different underlying network infrastructure...
The applications in many scientific fields, like bioinformatics and high-energy physics etc, increasingly demand the computing infrastructures can provide more computing power and...
Xiaohui Wei, Zhaohui Ding, Wilfred W. Li, Osamu Ta...
evel of abstraction, we can represent a workflow as a directed graph with operators (or tasks) at the vertices (see Figure 1). Each operator takes inputs from data sources or from ...