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ICA3PP
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
On-Line Task Granularity Adaptation for Dynamic Grid Applications
Abstract. Deploying lightweight tasks on grid resources would let the communication overhead dominate the overall application processing time. Our aim is to increase the resulting ...
Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Ian Chai, Eswaran Chikkann...
CLUSTER
2004
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
A comparison of local and gang scheduling on a Beowulf cluster
Gang Scheduling and related techniques are widely believed to be necessary for efficientjob scheduling on distributed memory parallel computers. This is hecause they minimize cont...
Peter E. Strazdins, John Uhlmann
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic Virtual Clusters in a Grid Site Manager
This paper presents new mechanisms for dynamic resource management in a cluster manager called Clusteron-Demand (COD). COD allocates servers from a common pool to multiple virtual...
Jeffrey S. Chase, David E. Irwin, Laura E. Grit, J...
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Flexible Control of Data Transfers between Parallel Programs
Allowing loose coupling between complex e-Science applications has many advantages, such as being able to easily incorporate new applications and to flexibly specify how the appl...
Joe Shang-Chieh Wu, Alan Sussman
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Elastic Site: Using Clouds to Elastically Extend Site Resources
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
Paul Marshall, Kate Keahey, Timothy Freeman