—this paper studies the influence that task placement may have on the performance of applications, mainly due to the relationship between communication locality and overhead. Thi...
Javier Navaridas, Jose Antonio Pascual, José...
GridFTP has been used as a data transfer protocol to effectively transfer a large volume of data in Grid computing. GridFTP supports a feature called parallel data transfer that i...
Many of today’s embedded systems, such as wireless and portable devices rely heavily on the limited power supply. Therefore, energy efficiency becomes one of the major design con...
Recently, the scheme of parallel downloading (PD) has been adopted by a number of Internet file downloading applications. With the wide deployment of content distribution network...
Parallel load balancing is studied for problems with certain bisection properties. A class of problems has bisectors if every problem p of weight wp in the class can be subdivided...