Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
Abstract. Grid information systems play a central role in today’s production Grid infrastructures, enabling the discovery of a range of information about the Grid services that e...
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...
CSCL systems can benefit from using a grid, since it offers a common infrastructure allowing an extended pool of resources that can provide supercomputing capabilities as well as...
Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, Ed...
In the life sciences, genomic databases for sequence search have been growing exponentially in size. As a result, faster sequencesearch algorithms to search these databases contin...
Oystein Thorsen, Brian E. Smith, Carlos P. Sosa, K...