Abstract. Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in resource sharing environments such as multi-cluster Grids. In these environments each cluster serves requests from ...
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
Scheduling strategies for parallel and distributed computing have mostly been oriented toward performance, while striving to achieve some notion of fairness. With the increase in ...
Darin England, Jon B. Weissman, Jayashree Sadagopa...
In this paper we describe JClarens; a Java based implementation of the Clarens remote data server. JClarens provides web services for an interactive analysis environment to dynami...
Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Michael Thoma...
Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the num...