Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on the other hand, is a shared collaborative environment constructed on v...
The growing computational power requirements of grand challenge applications has promoted the need for linking highperformance computational resources distributed across multiple ...
Since the birth of computational and data grids, many middlewares have been developed and deployed. Currently, they are used in a multitude of isolated e-Infrastructures and a hot...
This paper explores the role of Information Technology (IT) in the management of municipally-owned and operated public utilities. Through semi-structured interviews of senior mana...
Security is a critical component of grid systems and while there are numerous software components and tools that provide some capabilities relating to security, there are few comp...