1 Most recent Grid middleware technologies have been aimed at the execution of sequential batch jobs. However, some users require interactive access when running jobs on Grid sites...
Replication in grid file systems can significantly improves I/O performance of data-intensive applications. However, most of existing replication techniques apply to individual ...
Pilot-job systems have emerged as a computation paradigm to cope with heterogeneity of production grids, greatly improving fault ratios and latency. Tools like DIANE, WISDOM-II, To...
Abstract. Information Services are fundamental blocks of the Grid infrastructure. They are responsible for collecting and distributing information about resource availability and s...
Diego Puppin, Stefano Moncelli, Ranieri Baraglia, ...
Load balance is a critical issue in distributed systems, such as server grids. In this paper, we propose a Balanced Load Queue (BLQ) model, which combines the queuing theory and hy...