In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
We present a new federated login capability for the TeraGrid, currently the world’s largest and most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research....
Abstract. Deploying lightweight tasks on grid resources would let the communication overhead dominate the overall application processing time. Our aim is to increase the resulting ...
Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Ian Chai, Eswaran Chikkann...
Abstract. Provisioning extra resources is necessary when the local resources are not sufficient to meet the user requirements. Commercial Cloud providers offer the extra resources...
—Within collaborative computing, computer mediated communications are evolving rapidly thanks to the development of new technologies. The facilitation of awareness and discovery ...