Todays computational grids are used mostly for batch processing and throughput computing, where jobs are submitted to a queue, processed, and finally delivered for post-mortem an...
Irregular and iterative I/O-intensive jobs need a different approach from parallel job schedulers. The focus in this case is not only the processing requirements anymore: memory, ...
The majority of CPUs now sold contain multiple computing cores. However, current desktop grid computing systems either ignore the multiplicity of cores, or treat them as distinct,...