Grid applications must increasingly self-adapt dynamically to changing environments. In most cases, adaptation has been implemented in an ad hoc fashion, on a perapplication basis...
Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley R. Schmerl,...
Resource selection is fundamental to the performance of master/slave applications. In this paper, we address the problem of promoting performance for distributed master/slave appl...
: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...
This paper examines the suitability of different virtualization techniques in a high performance cluster environment. A survey of virtualization techniques is presented. Two repre...
During the last decade, software transactional memory (STM) gained wide popularity in many areas of parallel computing. In this paper, we introduce LISP-derived language equipped ...