Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
Abstract Metacomputing is the seamless application of geographically-separated distributed computing resources to user applications. We consider the scheduling of metaapplications;...
Java's support for parallel and distributed processing makes the language attractive for metacomputing applications, such as parallel applications that run on geographically ...
Rob van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal, T...
Parallel IO (PIO) support for larger scale computing is becoming more important as application developers better understand its importance in reducing overall execution time by avo...
Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Michael M. Resch, J...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...