We present a specification for a new, localized group membership service that maintains the membership status of adjacent nodes – called neighbors – in a mobile distributed s...
Efficient exploitation of the aggregate resources available to a researcher is a challenging and real problem. The challenge becomes all the greater when researchers who collaborat...
This paper describes how the London e-Science Centre cluster MARS, a production 400+ Opteron CPU cluster, was integrated into the production Large Hadron Collider Compute Grid. It...
David McBride, Marko Krznaric, Olivier van der Aa,...
The Grid accounting and auditing mechanisms were designed under the assumption that users would submit their jobs directly to the Grid gatekeepers. However, many groups are starti...
Igor Sfiligoi, Greg Quinn, Chris Green, Greg Thain
We introduce some modifications to the widely deployed Kerberos authentication protocol. The principle’s secretkey will be independent of the user password to overcome the weak...
Eman El-Emam, Magdy Koutb, Hamdy Kelash, Osama S. ...