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IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A job monitoring system for the LCG computing grid
Experience with generating simulation data of high energy physics experiments has shown that a job monitoring system (JMS) is essential to understand failures of jobs within the G...
Ahmad Hammad, T. Harenberg, D. Igdalov, P. Mä...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Workforce planning with parallel algorithms
Workforce planning is an important activity that enables organizations to determine the workforce needed for continued success. A workforce planning problem is a very complex task...
Enrique Alba, Gabriel Luque, Francisco Luna
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling and executing master-worker applications in component models
— This paper describes work in progress to extend component models to support Master-Worker applications and to let them to be executed on Grid infrastructures. The proposed appr...
Hinde-Lilia Bouziane, Christian Pérez, Thie...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed algorithm for a color assignment on asynchronous rings
We study a version of the β-assignment problem [3] on asynchronous rings: consider a set of items and a set of m colors, where each item is associated to one color. Consider also...
Gianluca De Marco, Mauro Leoncini, Manuela Montang...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Execution and composition of e-science applications using the WS-resource construct
Service Oriented Architectures are emerging as the recommended paradigm for developing dispersed escience environments. In this paper we analyze the characteristics and requiremen...
Evangelos Floros, Yannis Cotronis
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Lossless compression for large scale cluster logs
The growing computational and storage needs of several scientific applications mandate the deployment of extreme-scale parallel machines, such as IBM’s Blue Gene/L which can acc...
R. Balakrishnan, Ramendra K. Sahoo
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Dual-layered file cache on cc-NUMA system
CC-NUMA is a widely adopted and deployed architecture of high performance computers. These machines are attractive for their transparent access to local and remote memory. However...
Zhou Yingchao, Meng Dan, Ma Jie
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Timed automata based analysis of embedded system architectures
We show that timed automata can be used to model and to analyze timeliness properties of embedded system architectures. Using a case study inspired by industrial practice, we pres...
Martijn Hendriks, Marcel Verhoef
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Modelling job allocation where service duration is unknown
In this paper a novel job allocation scheme in distributed systems (TAG) is modelled using the Markovian process algebra PEPA. This scheme requires no prior knowledge of job size ...
Nigel Thomas
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Ant stigmergy on the grid: optimizing the cooling process in continuous steel casting
The paper presents a new distributed metaheuristic algorithm in an optimal control problem related to the cooling process in the continuous casting of steel. The optimization task...
Peter Korosec, Jurij Silc, Bogdan Filipic, Erkki L...