—Grid system software is inherently complex, hard to build and maintain. In this paper, we propose a selfmanaging building block: Grid Unit, which facilitates constructing Grid s...
Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Ming Zou, Hui Wang, Shuan...
As the scale is expanding, node failure becomes a commonplace feature of large-scale cluster systems. As an important part of cluster operating system software, job scheduling tak...
Linping Wu, Dan Meng, Jianfeng Zhan, Wang Lei, Bib...
A key element for outsourcing critical parts of a business process in Service Oriented Architectures are Service Level Agreements (SLAs). They build the key element to move from so...
Queries over scientific data often imply expensive analyses of data requiring a lot of computational resources available in Grids. We are developing a customizable query processor...
This paper proposes a comprehensive modeling architecture for workloads on parallel computers using Markov chains in combination with state dependent empirical distribution functi...