The InteGrade project is an on-going project with the participation of several research groups in Brazil. It is an opportunistic grid middleware that intends to exploit the idle t...
MPI provides a portable message passing interface for many parallel execution platforms but may lead to inefficiencies for some platforms and applications. In this article we sho...
Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the ...
Nicholas T. Karonis, Brian R. Toonen, Ian T. Foste...
Many large-scale production applications often have very long executions times and require periodic data checkpoints in order to save the state of the computation for program rest...
Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. ...
Resource selection is fundamental to the performance of master/slave applications. In this paper, we address the problem of promoting performance for distributed master/slave appl...