— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
: In modern organisations the monolithic information systems of the past are being gradually replaced by networked systems, enabling distributed computing often based on multi-agen...
This contribution presents the design and implementation of a bank service, constituting a key component in a recently developed Grid accounting system solution. The Grid accountin...
Large grid installations require global access to massive data stores. Parallel file systems give high throughput within a LAN, but cross-site data transfers lack seamless integra...
The ability to achieve one’s goals is a defining characteristic of intelligent behaviour. A great many existing theories, systems and research programmes address the problems a...