In parallel systems, similar jobs tend to arrive within bursty periods. This fact leads to the existence of the locality phenomenon, a persistent similarity between nearby jobs, in...
The Grid paradigm of accessing heterogeneous distributed resources proved to be extremely effective, as many organizations are relying on Grid middlewares for their computational ...
Paolo Andreetto, Sergio Andreozzi, Antonia Ghisell...
—The ever increasing scale and complexity of large computational systems ask for sophisticated management tools, paving the way toward Autonomic Computing. A first step toward A...
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of computational resources available on the Internet. In FGCS, host computers allow guest jobs to utili...
Xiaojuan Ren, Seyong Lee, Rudolf Eigenmann, Saurab...
Job scheduling typically focuses on the CPU with little work existing to include I/O or memory. Time-shared execution provides the chance to hide I/O and long-communication latenc...