We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...
Performance evaluation of applications running on a Grid is a challenging task. Grid's resources are heterogeneous in nature, often shared, and dynamic, all of which have imp...
Photo-realistic computergraphics is an area of research which tries to develop algorithms and methods to render images of arti cial models or worlds as realistically as possible, b...
: Grid computing is becoming more and more attractive for providing a convenient uniform platform for coordinating highly distributed and heterogeneous resources and services. In t...
Volunteer distributed computations utilize spare processor cycles of personal computers that are connected to the Internet. The related computation integrity concerns are commonly...