— Computer simulations of complex systems such as physical aggregation processes or swarming and collective behaviour of life-forms, often require order N-squared computational c...
Clusters of computers have emerged as cost-effective parallel and/or distributed computing systems for computationally intensive tasks. Normally, clusters are composed of high per...
Isaac D. Scherson, Daniel S. Valencia, Enrique Cau...
The emergence of computational grids has lead to an increased reliance on task schedulers that can guarantee the completion of tasks that are executed on unreliable systems. There...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Randa...
The use of user specific virtual machines (VMs) in Grid and Cloud computing reduces the administration overhead associated with manually installing required software for every user...
Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallen...
Agreement-based resource management is becoming the foundation of grid system. Since the grid resource management encompasses a wide range of different scenarios, the decision mak...