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EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Batch-Scheduling Dags for Internet-Based Computing
The process of scheduling computations for Internet-based computing presents challenges not encountered with more traditional platforms for parallel and distributed computing. The...
Grzegorz Malewicz, Arnold L. Rosenberg
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Consistent Data Replication: Is It Feasible in WANs?
Abstract. Recent proposals have shown that database replication providing 1copy-serializability can have excellent performance in LAN environments by using powerful multicast primi...
Yi Lin, Bettina Kemme, Marta Patiño-Mart&ia...
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
DCT Block Conversion for H.264/AVC Video Transcoding
In H.264/AVC [1], integer transforms are applied instead of the 8×8 discrete cosine transform (DCT) of previous standards to avoid inverse transform mismatch problems. However, th...
Joo-Kyong Lee, Ki-Dong Chung
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Faults in Large Distributed Systems and What We Can Do About Them
Scientists are increasingly using large distributed systems built from commodity off-the-shelf components to perform scientific computation. Grid computing has expanded the scale ...
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar, Miron Livny
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Virtual Workspaces in the Grid
Abstract. Despite significant progress in the development of Grid infrastructure, the provisioning of a customized and controllable remote execution environment remains an open iss...
Katarzyna Keahey, Ian T. Foster, Timothy Freeman, ...
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Tolerating Message Latency Through the Early Release of Blocked Receives
Large message latencies often lead to poor performance of parallel applications. In this paper, we investigate a latency-tolerating technique that immediately releases all blocking...
Jian Ke, Martin Burtscher, William Evan Speight
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Replication Predicates for Dependent-Failure Algorithms
Abstract. To establish lower bounds on the amount of replication, there is a common partition argument used to construct indistinguishable executions such that one violates some pr...
Flavio Paiva Junqueira, Keith Marzullo
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On AAA Based on Brokers and Pre-encrypted Keys in MIPv6
For providing mobility services for users through the global Internet, Mobile IP (MIP) has been standardized by IETF. Since conventional MIP has been investigated without the suppo...
Hoseong Jeon, Min Young Chung, Hyunseung Choo
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Integrating Mobile Devices into the Grid: Design Considerations and Evaluation
Mobile devices increasingly offer functionality beyond the one provided by traditional resources – processor, memory and applications. This includes, for example, integrated mul...
Stavros Isaiadis, Vladimir Getov