—We present a practical, market-based solution to the resource provisioning problem in a set of heterogeneous resource clusters. We focus on provisioning rather than immediate sc...
Murray Stokely, Jim Winget, E. Keyes, C. Grimes, B...
Knowledge about the workload is an important aspect for scheduling of resources as parallel computers or Grid components. As the scheduling quality highly depends on the character...
— We are developing a distributed computing system, Virtuoso, which presents virtual machines (VMs) as its fundabstraction to end users. Long-running noninteractive VMs may coexi...
d Abstract) Mitsuhisa Sato1 , Motonari Hirano2 , Yoshio Tanaka2 , and Satoshi Sekiguchi2 1 Real World Computing Partnership, Tsukuba, Japan 2 Software Research Associates, Inc 3 El...
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...