Workflow is a key technology for eScience. It enables scientific tools to be composed and the resulting workflows to be managed. Workflow and most other computing tools typically ...
Emerging large scale utility computing systems like Grids promise computing and storage to be provided to end users as a utility. System management services deployed in the middle...
In a desktop grid model, the job (computational task) is submitted for execution in the resource only when the resource is idle. There is no guarantee that the job which has starte...
The traditional complex access procedure still prevents a lot of scientists to migrate their applications to massively parallel computers and to bene t from their computing power. ...
The recent success of Internet-based computing projects, coupled with rapid developments in peer-to-peer systems, has stimulated interest in the notion of harvesting idle cycles u...