Recent developments in networking technology cause a growing interest in connecting local-area clusters of workstations over wide-area links, creating multilevel clusters, or meta...
Henri E. Bal, Aske Plaat, Mirjam G. Bakker, Peter ...
Metacomputing infrastructures couple multiple clusters (or MPPs) via wide-area networks. A major problem in programming parallel applications for such platforms is their hierarchi...
Writing parallel applications for computational grids is a challenging task. To achieve good performance, algorithms designed for local area networks must be adapted to the differ...
Thilo Kielmann, Rutger F. H. Hofman, Henri E. Bal,...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...
A virtual cluster is a promising technology for reducing management costs and improving capacity utilization in datacenters and computer centers. However, recent cluster virtualiz...