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HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Replicating Nondeterministic Services on Grid Environments
Replication is a technique commonly used to increase the availability of services in distributed systems, including grid and web services. While replication is relatively easy for...
Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen,...
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Toward Self Organizing Grids
— The potential of truly large scale grids can only be realized with grid architectures and deployment strategies that lower the need for human administrative intervention, and t...
Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Michael J. Lewis
HPDC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Materializing Highly Available Grids
Grids are becoming a mission-critical component in research and industry. The services they provide are thus required to be highly available, contributing to the vision of the Gri...
Mark Silberstein, Gabriel Kliot, Artyom Sharov, As...
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Provisioning and Scheduling Resources for World-Wide Data-Sharing Services
Grid computing is becoming the natural way to aggregate and share large and heterogeneous sets of resources. However, grid development and acceptance hinge on proving that grids r...
Alexandru Iosup, Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epema
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
TextGrid and eHumanities
TextGrid is a new Grid project in the framework of the German D-Grid initiative, with the aim to deploy Grid technologies for humanities scholars working on historical (German) te...
Peter Gietz, Andreas Aschenbrenner, Stefan Bü...
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Building Simple, Easy-to-Use Grids with Styx Grid Services and SSH
Grid systems have a reputation for being difficult to build and use. We describe how the ease of use of the Styx Grid Services (SGS) software can be combined with the security and...
J. D. Blower, K. Haines
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Grid Approach to Embarrassingly Parallel CPU-Intensive Bioinformatics Problems
Bioinformatics algorithms such as sequence alignment methods based on profile-HMM (Hidden Markov Model) are popular but CPU-intensive. If large amounts of data are processed, a s...
Heinz Stockinger, Marco Pagni, Lorenzo Cerutti, La...
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Characterization of Computational Grid Resources Using Low-Level Benchmarks
An important factor that needs to be taken into account by end-users and systems (schedulers, resource brokers, policy brokers) when mapping applications to the Grid, is the perfo...
George Tsouloupas, Marios D. Dikaiakos
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Introducing Risk Management into the Grid
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are explicit statements about all expectations and obligations in the business partnership between customers and providers. They have been introduc...
Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, James Padgett, Georg ...
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
GridBuilder: A Tool for Creating Virtual Grid Testbeds
Grid software developers and Grid site administrators both require realistic testbeds where they can test applications and middleware before deployment on production infrastructur...
Stephen Childs, Brian A. Coghlan, Jason McCandless