Abstract--The provision of Quality of Service in Grid environments is still an open issue that needs attention from the research community. One way of contributing to the provision...
Grid applications require allocating a large number of heterogeneous tasks to distributed resources. A good allocation is critical for efficient execution. However, many existing ...
James Blythe, S. Jain, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, K...
Abstract. The commercial exploitation of the emerging Grid and Cloud markets needs SLAs to sell computing run times. Job traces show that users have a limited ability to estimate t...
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...
We are working on a system for the optimised access and replication of data on a Data Grid. Our approach is based on the use of an economic model that includes the actors and the ...
Mark James Carman, Floriano Zini, Luciano Serafini...