In petabyte-scale distributed file systems that decouple read and write from metadata operations, behavior of the metadata server cluster will be critical to overall system perfo...
Sage A. Weil, Kristal T. Pollack, Scott A. Brandt,...
Metadata management is critical for Grid systems. More specifically, semantically meaningful resource descriptions constitute a highly beneficial extension to Grid environments t...
George Samaras, Kyriakos Karenos, Eleni Christodou...
Web services are loosely coupled software components that are published, discovered, and invoked across the Web. As the use of Web services grows, in order to correctly interact w...
The computing-intensive data mining for inherently Internet-wide distributed data, referred to as Distributed Data Mining (DDM), calls for the support of a powerful Grid with an e...
This paper presents the main concepts of the IST Project FAIN "Future Active IP Networks" [10], a three-year collaborative research project, whose main task is to develo...
Alex Galis, Bernhard Plattner, Jonathan M. Smith, ...