When users' tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated resources, the total demand placed on some sys...
Jong-Kook Kim, Debra A. Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, Howa...
Setting up generic and fully transparent distributed services for clusters implies complex and tedious kernel developments. More flexible approaches such as user-space libraries ar...
Adrien Lebre, Renaud Lottiaux, Erich Focht, Christ...
Virtual machines provide flexible, powerful execution environments for Grid computing, offering isolation and security mechanisms complementary to operating systems, customization...
Ivan Krsul, Arijit Ganguly, Jian Zhang, José...
Utility provisioning, Grid resource management, instant copy kiosks, and network transfers provide an exciting new paradigm for data warehouse functions. Grid technologies are fas...
We present NeST, a flexible software-only storage appliance designed to meet the storage needs of the Grid. NeST has three key features that make it well-suited for deployment in...
John Bent, Venkateshwaran Venkataramani, Nick LeRo...