In ad-hoc Grids where the availability of resources and tasks changes over the time, distributing the tasks among the scarce resources in a balanced way is a challenging task. In ...
Communication latencies constitute a significant factor in the performance of parallel applications. With techniques such as wormhole routing, the variation in no-load latencies ...
T. Agarwal, Amit Sharma, A. Laxmikant, Laxmikant V...
In the age of Grid, Cloud, volunteer computing, massively parallel applications are deployed over tens or hundreds of thousands of resources over short periods of times to complete...
Biomolecular simulations produce more output data than can be managed effectively by traditional computing systems. Researchers need distributed systems that allow the pooling of...
Justin M. Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aa...
It is often difficult to perform efficiently a collection of jobs with complex job dependencies due to temporal unpredictability of the grid. One way to mitigate the unpredictabili...
Grzegorz Malewicz, Ian T. Foster, Arnold L. Rosenb...