—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
Grid computing is becoming a mainstream technology for large-scale distributed resource sharing and system integration. Workflow management is emerging as one of the most importan...
Junwei Cao, Stephen A. Jarvis, Subhash Saini, Grah...
Abstract. Deploying lightweight tasks on grid resources would let the communication overhead dominate the overall application processing time. Our aim is to increase the resulting ...
Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Ian Chai, Eswaran Chikkann...
This paper describes a Global Computing (GC) environment, called XtremWeb-CH (XWCH). XWCH is an improved version of a GC tool called XtremWeb (XW). XWCH tries to enrich XW in orde...
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...