RPC is one of the programming models envisioned for the Grid. In Internet connected Large Scale Grids such as Desktop Grids, nodes and networks failures are not rare events. This ...
As the desire of scientists to perform ever larger computations drives the size of today’s high performance computers from hundreds, to thousands, and even tens of thousands of ...
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...
OSIRIS is a middleware for the composition and orchestration of distributed web services that follows a P2P decentralized approach to process execution, providing already some deg...
Mobile agent systems have many attractive features including asynchrony, openness, dynamicity and anonymity, which makes them indispensable in designing complex modern application...