This article presents a novel method for computing distances between hosts in a computational Grid. Our method allows to represent the cost to achieve any operation involving some...
The complexity of Grid environments is growing as more projects and applications appear in this quick-evolving domain. Widespread applications are distributed over thousands of com...
Franck Bonnassieux, Robert Harakaly, Pascale Prime...
QoS (Quality of Service) parameters play a key role in selecting Grid resources and optimizing resources usage efficiently. Although many works have focused on using QoS metrics,...
Hong Linh Truong, Robert Samborski, Thomas Fahring...
The need to conduct and manage large sets of experiments for scientific applications dramatically increased over the last decade. However, there is still very little tool support ...
A short overview of Grid infrastructure status monitoring is given followed by a discussion of key concepts for advanced status monitoring systems: passive information gathering ba...
Petr Holub, Martin Kuba, Ludek Matyska, Miroslav R...