We propose, implement and evaluate three admission models for computational Grids. The models take the expected demand into account and offer a specific performance guarantee. Th...
—The concept of green computing has attracted much attention recently in cluster computing. However, previous local approaches focused on saving the energy cost of the components...
Liting Hu, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao, Xianjie Xiong, H...
—Lustre is becoming an increasingly important file system for large-scale computing clusters. The problem, however, is that many data-intensive applications use MPI-IO for their ...
Service Management controls how business services are developed and delivered to customers. Business services must be flexible negotiable between customer and provider. Temporal a...
Recently, industry has begun investigating and moving towards utility computing, where computational resources (processing, memory and I/O) are availably on demand at a market cos...