vices provide an important abstract layer on top of heterogeneous components (hardware and software) that take part into a grid environment. In this scenario, applications, like sc...
During the past ve years scientists discovered that modern UNIX workstations connected with ethernet and ber networks could provide enough computational performance to compete wit...
Nested-parallelism programming models, where the task graph associated to a computation is series-parallel, present good analysis properties that can be exploited for scheduling, c...
The availability of relatively cheap small jet aircrafts suggests a new air transportation business: dial-a-flight, an on-demand service in which travelers call a few days in adva...
Daniel G. Espinoza, R. Garcia, Marcos Goycoolea, G...
Time-sharing operating systems may delay application processing of incoming messages because other processes are scheduled when the messages arrive. In this paper, we present a sim...