Grid computing can be characterized as a distributed infrastructure that is a collection of computing resources within or across locations that are aggregated to act as a unified ...
Marinho P. Barcellos, Maziar Nekovee, M. Koyabe, M...
The practical realization of managing and executing large scale scientific computations efficiently and reliably is quite challenging. Scientific computations often invo...
Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster, Mihael Hateg...
We present DiPerF, a distributed performance-testing framework, aimed at simplifying and automating service performance evaluation. DiPerF coordinates a pool of machines that test...
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian...
As Data Grids become more commonplace, large data sets are being replicated and distributed to multiple sites, leading to the problem of determining which replica can be accessed ...
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Jennifer M. Schopf, Ian T. F...
In this paper, we consider the communications involved in the execution of a complex application, deployed on a heterogeneous platform. Such applications extensively use macro-com...