Production grids have a potential for parallel execution of a very large number of tasks but also introduce a high overhead that significantly impacts the execution of short task...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...
We describe a scheduling technique in which estimated job runtimes and estimated resource availability are used to efficiently distribute workloads across a homogeneous grid of res...
Sam Verboven, Peter Hellinckx, Jan Broeckhove, Fra...
While traditional approaches to code profiling help locate performance bottlenecks, they offer only limited support for removing these bottlenecks. The main reason is the lack of v...
Abstract. There is growing interest in large-scale resource sharing with emerging architectures such as cloud computing, where globally distributed and commoditized resources can b...