Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Internet data centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtualized collection of resources while Grid computing generalizes distributed computing by focusing on large sc...
Data services for the Grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requ...
Andrew Woolf, Ray Cramer, Marta Gutierrez, Kerstin...
In heterogeneous and dynamic distributed systems like the Grid, detailed monitoring of workload and its resulting system performance (e.g. response time) is required to facilitate...
Rui Zhang, Steve Moyle, Steve McKeever, Stephen He...
Cluster based server architectures have been widely used as a solution to overloading in web servers because of their cost effectiveness, scalability and reliability. A content aw...
Li Zhao, Yan Luo, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Ravishankar R. ...