Metadata management is critical for Grid systems. More specifically, semantically meaningful resource descriptions constitute a highly beneficial extension to Grid environments t...
George Samaras, Kyriakos Karenos, Eleni Christodou...
— Desktop grids use the idle cycles of desktop PC’s to provide huge computational power at low cost. However, because the underlying desktop computing resources are volatile, a...
Derrick Kondo, Bruno Kindarji, Gilles Fedak, Franc...
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...
This paper presents iShare, a distributed peer-to-peer Internet-sharing system, that facilitates the sharing of diverse resources located in different administrative domains over ...
Xiaojuan Ren, Ayon Basumallik, Zhelong Pan, Rudolf...
One of the guiding principles of the Grid is local (site) autonomy. Resource owners maintain control over their resources even when those resources are part of a larger Grid. In o...
Jun Feng, Lingling Cui, Glenn S. Wasson, Marty Hum...