Resource location (or discovery) is a fundamental service for resource-sharing environments: given desired resource attributes, the service returns locations of matching resources....
Task scheduling is an integrated component of computing. With the emergence of grid and ubiquitous computing, newer challenges have arisen in task scheduling. Unlike traditional p...
Grid software developers and Grid site administrators both require realistic testbeds where they can test applications and middleware before deployment on production infrastructur...
Stephen Childs, Brian A. Coghlan, Jason McCandless
Nowadays many data grid applications need to manage and process a huge amount of data distributed across multiple grid nodes and stored into heterogeneous databases. Grids encoura...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Sandro Fiore, Ma...
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on the other hand, is a shared collaborative environment constructed on v...