This paper presents a data management solution which allows fast Virtual Machine (VM) instantiation and efficient run-time execution to support VMs as execution environments in Gri...
Ming Zhao 0002, Jian Zhang 0005, Renato J. O. Figu...
— Desktop grids use the idle cycles of desktop PC’s to provide huge computational power at low cost. However, because the underlying desktop computing resources are volatile, a...
Derrick Kondo, Bruno Kindarji, Gilles Fedak, Franc...
The main objective of the Intelligent GRID Scheduling System (ISS) project is to provide a middleware infrastructure allowing a good positioning and scheduling of real life applic...
Ralf Gruber, Vincent Keller, Pierre Kuonen, Marie-...
Providing QoS guarantees to the applications in a multi-institutional Grid is a challenging task. Although advance reservations (ARs) can provide QoS guarantees for the applicatio...
Complex environmental modeling often involves a large number of unknown physical and ecological parameters. Parameter estimation is one of the most difficult steps in many modelin...