Large-scale distributed computing systems such as grids are serving a growing number of scientists. These environments bring about not only the advantages of an economy of scale, ...
Omer Ozan Sonmez, Nezih Yigitbasi, Alexandru Iosup...
On many computers, a request to run a job is not serviced immediately but instead is placed in a queue and serviced only when resources are released by preceding jobs. In this pape...
In a Computational Grid which consists of many computer clusters, job start time predictions are useful to guide resource selections and balance the workload distribution. However...
Hui Li, David L. Groep, Jeffrey Templon, Lex Wolte...
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...
The existence of good probabilistic models for the job arrival process and job characteristics is important for the improved understanding of grid systems and the prediction of th...
Michael Oikonomakos, Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Em...