— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Abstract--Cloud computing infrastructures are providing resources on demand for tackling the needs of large-scale distributed applications. Determining the amount of resources to a...
: This paper describes the architecture and services developed by the GRANI project for the Australian Nanostructural Analysis Network Organization (NANO). The aim of GRANI was to ...
Brendan Mauger, Jane Hunter, John Drennan, Ashley ...
In this study, we consider an environment composed of a heterogeneous cluster of multicore-based machines used to analyze satellite images. The workload involves large data sets, a...
Luis D. Briceo, Jay Smith, Howard Jay Siegel, Anth...
Visualization is a powerful tool for analysing data and presenting results in science, engineering and medicine. This paper reviews ways in which it can be used in distributed and...
Ken Brodlie, David A. Duce, Julian R. Gallop, J. P...