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HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Performance Study of Monitoring and Information Services for Distributed Systems
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
RUMR: Robust Scheduling for Divisible Workloads
Divisible workload applications arise in many fields of science and engineering. They can be parallelized in master-worker fashion and relevant scheduling strategies have been pr...
Yang Yang, Henri Casanova
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Security for Grid Services
Grid computing is concerned with the sharing and coordinated use of diverse resources in distributed "virtual organizations.” The dynamic and multi-institutional nature of ...
Von Welch, Frank Siebenlist, Ian T. Foster, John B...
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Optimizing GridFTP through Dynamic Right-Sizing
In this paper, we describe the integration of dynamic right-sizing — an automatic and scalable buffer management technique for enhancing TCP performance — into GridFTP, a sub...
Sunil Thulasidasan, Wu-chun Feng, Mark K. Gardner
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Ethernet Approach to Grid Computing
Despite many competitors, Ethernet became the dominant protocol for local area networking due to its simplicity, robustness, and efficiency in wide variety of conditions and tech...
Douglas Thain, Miron Livny
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Pipeline and Batch Sharing in Grid Workloads
We present a study of six batch-pipelined scientific workloads that are candidates for execution on computational grids. Whereas other studies focus on the behavior of single app...
Douglas Thain, John Bent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau...
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Environment for Enabling Interactive Grids
Vanish Talwar, Sujoy Basu, Raj Kumar
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Polling of Grid Resource Monitors Using a Slacker Coherence Model
As Data and Computational Grids grow in size and complexity, the crucial task of identifying, monitoring and utilizing available resources in an efficient manner is becoming incr...
Radhakrishnan Sundaresan, Mario Lauria, Tahsin M. ...
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
XenoSearch: Distributed Resource Discovery in the XenoServer Open Platform
We describe the XenoSearch system for performing expressive resource discovery searches in a distributed environment. We represent server meta-data, such as their locations and fa...
David Spence, Tim Harris
HPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Policies for Swapping MPI Processes
Despite the enormous amount of research and development work in the area of parallel computing, it is a common observation that simultaneous performance and ease-of-use are elusiv...
Otto Sievert, Henri Casanova