Clusters of workstations have emerged as a costeffective solution to high performance computing problem. To take advantage of any opportunities, however, effective scheduling tech...
This paper proposes a cryptographic mechanism for metering the duration and/or the number of instances of running a data process. This mechanism has the following property: knowing...
Distributed information systems for decision support and e-commerce applications require coordination of multiple autonomous components and their services to accomplish a set of g...
Parallelism and concurrency have long been considered as non essential during the cursus of the average programmer. However, thanks to technological advances, new promising forms ...
Eric Dillon, Carlos Gamboa Dos Santos, Jacques Guy...
In this paper a model for scheduling in wide-area systems is described. The model is federated and utilizes a collection of local site schedulers that control the use of their res...