Grid systems are designed to support very large data set computations, that potentially access significant resources spread through several organizations. These resources can be v...
Luis Sardinha, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Ver&iacu...
Grid computing has reached the stage where deployments are mature and many collaborations run in production mode. Mature Grid deployments offer the opportunity for revisiting and ...
Interest has been growing in powering data centers (at least partially) with renewable or “green” sources of energy, such as solar or wind. However, it is challenging to use t...
Replication is a technique used in Data Grid environments that helps to reduce access latency and network bandwidth utilization. Replication also increases data availability thereb...
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...