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GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On The Feasibility of Running Entity-Level Simulations on Grid Platforms
Scientists have long relied on abstract models to study phenomena that are too complex for direct observation and experimentation. As new scientific modeling methodologies emerge...
Alan Su, Francine Berman, Henri Casanova
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Performance Comparison of Security Mechanisms for Grid Services
Security is one of the most important features for Grid services. There are several specifications used to add security to Grid services, and some of them have been implemented a...
Satoshi Shirasuna, Aleksander Slominski, Liang Fan...
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Toward Characterizing the Performance of SOAP Toolkits
The SOAP protocol underpins Web services as the standard mechanism for exchanging information in a distributed environment. The XML-based protocol offers advantages including exte...
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Ken...
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Phoenix: Making Data-Intensive Grid Applications Fault-Tolerant
A major hurdle facing data intensive grid applications is the appropriate handling of failures that occur in the grid-environment. Implementing the fault-tolerance transparently a...
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar, Miron Livny
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Distributed Ant: A System to Support Application Deployment in the Grid
e-Science has much to benefit from the emerging field of grid computing. However, construction of e-Science grids is a complex and inefficient undertaking. In particular, deployme...
Wojtek Goscinski, David Abramson
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Walden: A Scalable Solution for Grid Account Management
— A large and diverse consortium of grid clusters, as can be found in a university setting, requires a flexible authorization model that is scalable, extensible and easy to admi...
Beth A. Kirschner, Thomas J. Hacker, William A. Ad...
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Allocation of Servers in a Grid Hosting Environment
Mike Fisher, Charles Kubicek, Paul McKee, Isi Mitr...
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Stochastic Control Model for Deployment of Dynamic Grid Services
We introduce a formal model for deployment and hosting of a dynamic grid service wherein the service provider must pay a resource provider for the use of computational resources. ...
Darin England, Jon B. Weissman
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
DiPerF: An Automated DIstributed PERformance Testing Framework
We present DiPerF, a distributed performance-testing framework, aimed at simplifying and automating service performance evaluation. DiPerF coordinates a pool of machines that test...
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian...