Desktop Grids have emerged as an important methodology to harness the idle cycles of millions of participant desktop PCs over the Internet. However, to effectively utilize the res...
Manual deployment of the application usually requires expertise both about the underlying system and the application. Automatic service deployment can improve deployment significa...
: In previous papers we had presented an application program interface (API) that enabled applications to use application-defined scheduling algorithms for Ada tasks in a way compa...
Mario Aldea Rivas, Javier Miranda, Michael Gonz&aa...
Cloud computing uses virtualization technologies to offer a non-shared use rental of computer resources with publicly accessible worker nodes. However, unlike Grid computing, Cloud...
Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Matthew Smith,...
Desktop Grids have become very popular nowadays, with projects that include hundred of thousands computers. Desktop grid scheduling faces two challenges. First, the platform is vo...