Grid computing is moving into two ways. The Computational Grid focuses on reducing execution time of applications that require a great number of computer processing cycles. The Da...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
The popularity of batch-oriented cluster architectures like Hadoop is on the rise. These batch-based systems successfully achieve high degrees of scalability by carefully allocati...
: The next generation of scientific experiments and studies, popularly called e-Science, is carried out by large collaborations of researchers distributed around the world engaged ...
Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Lyle J. Winton
Data-intensive applications often require exploratory analysis of large datasets. If analysis is performed on distributed resources, data locality can be crucial to high throughpu...
Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian T. Foster, Alexander S....