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CCGRID
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Distributed Computing with Hierarchical Master-worker Paradigm for Parallel Branch and Bound Algorithm
This paper discusses the impact of the hierarchical master-worker paradigm on performance of an application program, which solves an optimization problem by a parallel branch and ...
Kento Aida, Wataru Natsume, Yoshiaki Futakata
CCGRID
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Programming for Dependability in a Service-based Grid
Service-based Grid infrastructures emphasize service composition rather than sharing of low level resources. The idea is to build Grid applications out of computational services p...
Win Bausch, Cesare Pautasso, Gustavo Alonso
CCGRID
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Building a Performance Model of Streaming Media Applications in Utility Data Center Environment
Abstract Utility Data Center (UDC) provides a exible, coste ective infrastructure to support the hosting of applications for Internet services. In order to enable the design of a \...
Ludmila Cherkasova, Loren Staley
DSOM
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
ABHA: A Framework for Autonomic Job Recovery
Key issues to address in autonomic job recovery for cluster computing are recognizing job failure; understanding the failure sufficiently to know if and how to restart the job; an...
Charles Earl, Emilio Remolina, Jim Ong, John Brown...
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Distributed Applications on Commodity Clusters
We have created ZapC, a novel system for transparent coordinated checkpoint-restart of distributed network applications on commodity clusters. ZapC provides a thin virtualization ...
Oren Laadan, Dan B. Phung, Jason Nieh
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient and Robust Computation of Resource Clusters in the Internet
Applications such as parallel computing, online games, and content distribution networks need to run on a set of resources with particular network connection characteristics to ge...
Chuang Liu, Ian T. Foster
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Generic Proxy Mechanism for Secure Middlebox Traversal
Firewalls/NATs have brought significant connectivity problems along with their benefits, causing many applications to break or become inefficient. Due to its bi-directional commun...
Se-Chang Son, Matthew Farrellee, Miron Livny
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Near Overhead-free Heterogeneous Thread-migration
Thread migration moves a single call-stack to another machine to improve either load balancing or locality. Current approaches for checkpointing and thread migration are either no...
Ronald Veldema, Michael Philippsen