The need for service providers to offer SLAs to gain consumers confidence has become increasingly apparent. Our work focuses on providers who manage the execution of long-running d...
Daniel Spaven, Madhavi Rani, Sumit Kumar Bose, Mik...
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
—We discuss a general architectural approach to knowledge and information management and delivery in distributed systems. Our approach is based on the recognition that time-stamp...
Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet S. Aktas, Galip Aydin, Andrea...
While distributed, heterogeneous collections of computers (“Grids”) can in principle be used as a computing platform, in practice the problems of first discovering and then co...
Chuang Liu, Lingyun Yang, Ian T. Foster, Dave Angu...
In this paper, we describe the design of a highlyavailable Grid data storage system. Increased availability is ensured by data redundancy and file striping. Redundant data is com...