In this work we examine a task scheduling and data migration problem for Grid Networks, which we refer to as the Data Consolidation (DC) problem. DC arises when a task needs for i...
Panagiotis C. Kokkinos, Kostas Christodoulopoulos,...
Data replication is an excellent technique to move and cache data close to users. By replication, data access performance can be improved dramatically. One of the challenges in da...
Grid computing is an important mechanism for utilizing distributed computing resources. These resources are distributed in different geographical locations, but are organized to p...
—For modern scientific applications such as astrophysics, astronomy, aerography, and biology, a large amount of storage space is required because of the large-scale datasets. Dat...