A `second generation' approach to the provision of Grid middleware is now emerging which is built on service-oriented architecture and web services standards and technologies....
Paul Grace, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Lauren...
Accurate failure prediction in Grids is critical for reasoning about QoS guarantees such as job completion time and availability. Statistical methods can be used but they suffer f...
The task management is a key point in grid applications and can highly influence their efficiency. There are many solutions that we can classify according to their centralizatio...
Providing QoS guarantees to the applications in a multi-institutional Grid is a challenging task. Although advance reservations (ARs) can provide QoS guarantees for the applicatio...
Traditional DHT (Distributed Hash Tables) abstraction distributes data items among peer nodes on a structured overlay network. This introduces a number of issues when nodes are un...