The Grid is realizing the vision of providing computation as utility: computation jobs can be scheduled on-demand in Grid hosts based on available computation capacity. In this pa...
Networking infrastructure is a vital part of virtual computer clusters. This paper describes VirtCloud, a system for interconnecting virtual clusters in a state-wide network based...
David Antos, Ludek Matyska, Petr Holub, Jirí...
Grid applications comprise several components and web-services that make them highly prone to the occurrence of transient software failures and aging problems. This type of failur...
A challenging issue facing Grid communities is that while Grids can provide access to many heterogeneous resources, the resources to which access is provided often do not match th...
Ian T. Foster, Timothy Freeman, Katarzyna Keahey, ...
Internet data centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtualized collection of resources while Grid computing generalizes distributed computing by focusing on large sc...