Grid Computing brought the promise of making high-performance computing cheaper and more easily available than traditional supercomputing platforms. Such a promise was very well r...
Desktop Grids have proved to be a suitable platform for the execution of Bag-of-Tasks applications but, being characterized by a high resource volatility, require the availability ...
Cosimo Anglano, John Brevik, Massimo Canonico, Dan...
An important factor that needs to be taken into account by end-users and systems (schedulers, resource brokers, policy brokers) when mapping applications to the Grid, is the perfo...
In Grids scheduling decisions are often made on the basis of jobs being either data or computation intensive: in data intensive situations jobs may be pushed to the data and in co...
Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Heinz Stockinger,...
Grid data streaming applications are novel from others in that they require real-time data supply while the processing is going on, which necessitates harmonious collaborations am...