Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
As the number of processors in today’s high performance computers continues to grow, the mean-time-to-failure of these computers are becoming significantly shorter than the exe...
Zizhong Chen, Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Julie...
Abstract. Since 1994, the Alexandria Digital Library Project has developed three prototype digital libraries for georeferenced information. This paper describes the most recent of ...
James Frew, Michael Freeston, Nathan Freitas, Lind...
Numerous systems have been designed which use virtualization to subdivide the ample resources of a modern computer. Some require specialized hardware, or cannot support commodity ...
Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven H...