—The computational Grid concept is gaining great popularity as the best way to deliver access to a wide range of distributed computing and data resources. But, as Grids move from...
Data replication is one of the key components in data grid architecture as it enhances data access and reliability and minimises the cost of data transmission. In this paper, we a...
Hidden information is a critical issue for the successful delivery of SLAs in grid systems. It arises when the agents (hardware and software resources) employed to serve a task be...
We present DiPerF, a distributed performance-testing framework, aimed at simplifying and automating service performance evaluation. DiPerF coordinates a pool of machines that test...
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian...
The continuous increase of data volumes available from many sources raises new challenges for their effective understanding. Knowledge discovery in large data repositories involv...