The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
Although it has long been realised that ACID transactions by themselves are not adequate for structuring long-lived applications and much research work has been done on developing...
Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santos...
The goal of the Globe project is to design and build a middleware platform that facilitates the development of large-scale distributed applications, such as those found on the Int...
Arno Bakker, E. Amade, Gerco Ballintijn, Ihor Kuz,...
Considerable research effort has recently been devoted to the design of structured peer-to-peer overlays, a term we use to encompass Content-Addressable Networks (CANs), Distribut...
The goal of the work described in this paper is to design and build a scalable infrastructure for executing grid applications on a widely distributed set of resources. Such grid i...
Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Michael A. Marsh, Peter...