Traditionally, scheduling in high-end parallel systems focuses on how to minimize the average job waiting time and on how to maximize the overall system utilization. Despite the d...
The management and access of distributed informational resources has emerged as an important requirement for scientific simulations using high-performance computing facilities. Bot...
Cloud computing offers users the ability to access large pools of computational and storage resources on demand. Multiple commercial clouds already allow businesses to replace, or...
Workflow management systems integrate applications and data resources in business processes. Frequently they have to keep local copies of data in the so called workflow repositor...
A recent trend in modern high performance computing (HPC) system architectures employs “lean” compute nodes running a lightweight operating system (OS). Certain parts of the OS...