Volunteer-based grid computing resources are characteristically volatile and frequently become unavailable due to the autonomy that owners maintain over them. This resource volati...
— Peer-to-peer computing, the harnessing of idle compute cycles throughout the Internet, offers exciting new research challenges in the converging domains of networking and distr...
Virginia Mary Lo, Daniel Zappala, Dayi Zhou, Yuhon...
Time-oriented progress estimation for parallel queries is a challenging problem that has received only limited attention. In this paper, we present ParaTimer, a new type of timere...
Agent-based approaches to manufacturing scheduling and control have gained increasing attention in recent years. Such approaches are attractive because they o er increased robustn...
Clusters of workstations have emerged as an important platform for building cost-effective, scalable, and highlyavailable computers. Although many hardware solutions are available...
Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Juan Fern&aa...