— Desktop grids use the idle cycles of desktop PC’s to provide huge computational power at low cost. However, because the underlying desktop computing resources are volatile, a...
Derrick Kondo, Bruno Kindarji, Gilles Fedak, Franc...
Grid computing has emerged as a new paradigm of distributed computing technology on large-scale resource sharing and coordinated problem solving. Based on a proposed Web service-b...
Due to the popularity of high-speed networks and advances in packaging and interface technologies, there has been significant efforts for providing high performance applications a...
ide, applications are programmed in an abstract manner describing essentially the chemical coordination between (not necessarily chemical) software components. On the other side, c...
evel of abstraction, we can represent a workflow as a directed graph with operators (or tasks) at the vertices (see Figure 1). Each operator takes inputs from data sources or from ...