Designing and organising large numbers of autonomic resources into a coherent system is a difficult endeavour. It necessitates handling complex interactions among dynamic, heteroge...
The Grid vision is to allow heterogeneous computational resources to be shared and utilised globally. Grid users are able to submit tasks to remote resources for execution. Howeve...
In open environments, such as mobile peer-to-peer systems, participants may need to access resources from unknown users. A critical security concern in such systems is the access ...
In teaching operating systems at an undergraduate level, we believe that it is important to provide a project that is realistic enough to show how real operating systems work, yet...
Wayne A. Christopher, Steven J. Procter, Thomas E....
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....