— A recent trend for data-intensive computations is to use pay-as-you-go execution environments that scale transparently to the user. However, providers of such environments must...
Abstract--Mobile Agents is a new paradigm for distributed computing where security is very essential to the acceptance of this paradigm in a large scale distributed environment. In...
An important type of communication in grid and distributed computing environments is bulk data transfer. GridFTP has emerged as a de facto standard for secure, reliable, high-perf...
Rajkumar Kettimuthu, William E. Allcock, Lee Limin...
Elements of transaction processing become more and more accepted as a base for general purpose distributed computing.We have developed an action concept with an extended functiona...
In production Grids for scientific applications, service and resource failures must be detected and addressed quickly. In this paper, we describe the monitoring infrastructure use...
Ann L. Chervenak, Jennifer M. Schopf, Laura Pearlm...