Metacomputing systems are intended to support remote and/or concurrent use of geographically distributed computational resources. Resource management in such systems is complicate...
Karl Czajkowski, Ian T. Foster, Nicholas T. Karoni...
The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributedcollectionof documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technologycurrently used for searching the Web depend...
Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila, Tova Milo
Distributed computing middleware needs to support a wide range of resources, such as diverse software components, various hardware devices, and heterogeneous operating systems and...
Han Gao, Ivan R. Judson, Thomas D. Uram, Terry Dis...
Rapid commoditization of advanced hardware and progress of networking technology is now making wide area high-performance computing a.k.a. the ‘Grid’ Computing a reality. Sinc...
Process/thread migration and checkpointing schemes support load balancing, load sharing and fault tolerance to improve application performance and system resource usage on worksta...