A grid has to provide strong incentive for participating sites to join and stay in it. Participating sites are concerned with the performance improvement brought by the gird for th...
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...
— Despite their popularity, occupancy grids cannot be directly applied to problems where the identity of the objects populating an environment needs to be taken into account (eg ...
According to the special features of the dynamic heterogeneous grid environment, a loose-coupled and scalable resource model is described by a hybrid multi-level tree reflecting a...
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated distributed systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on another hand, is a shared collaborative environment constr...