Resource management is a key concern for implementing effective Grid middleware and shielding application developers from low level details. Existing resource managers concentrat...
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...
The grid vision of a single computing utility has yet to materialize: while many grids with thousands of processors each exist, most work in isolation. An important obstacle for t...
Alexandru Iosup, Todd Tannenbaum, Matthew Farrelle...
Context-aware computing systems demand an accurate and up-to-date world model which computationally represents the environment they oversee. Systems to date tend to have small-sca...
In this article we introduce a grid runtime system called TGrid which is designed to run hierarchically structured task-parallel programs on heterogenous environments and can also...