BOINC is a platform for volunteer computing. The server component of BOINC embodies a number of scheduling policies and parameters that have a large impact on the projects through...
Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer, Kevin Reed, David ...
In this study, we consider an environment composed of a heterogeneous cluster of multicore-based machines used to analyze satellite images. The workload involves large data sets, a...
Luis D. Briceo, Jay Smith, Howard Jay Siegel, Anth...
- Mobile agents are an emerging approach to develop distributed and parallel applications. They also can be used to develop enterprise applications, since they can act as active ne...
To minimize the execution time of an iterative application in a heterogeneous parallel computing environment, an appropriate mapping scheme is needed for matching and scheduling th...
Yu-Kwong Kwok, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay ...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...