OGSA-DQP is a Distributed Query Processing system for the Grid. It uses the OGSA-DAI framework for querying individual databases and adds on top of it an infrastructure to perform ...
A fundamental challenge in Internet computing (IC) is to efficiently schedule computations having complex interjob dependencies, given the unpredictability of remote machines, in...
Robert Hall, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Arun Venkatarama...
BOINC is a platform for volunteer computing. The server component of BOINC embodies a number of scheduling policies and parameters that have a large impact on the projects through...
Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer, Kevin Reed, David ...
In the classical load balancing or multiprocessor scheduling problem, we are given a sequence of jobs of varying sizes and are asked to assign each job to one of the m empty proce...
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...