Abstract--Cloud computing infrastructures are providing resources on demand for tackling the needs of large-scale distributed applications. Determining the amount of resources to a...
Mega grids span several continents and may consist of millions of nodes and billions of tasks executing at any point in time. This setup calls for scalable and highly available re...
This paper describes the current status and programme of continued development and support for the UK’s National Grid Service (NGS). Through the activities presented in this pap...
The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) was announced in January 2004 as a new way for manipulating "stateful resources" to perform grid computing tasks using Web Serv...
Effective scheduling in large-scale computational grids is challenging because it requires tracking the dynamic state of the large number of distributed resources that comprise th...
Deger Cenk Erdil, Michael J. Lewis, Nael B. Abu-Gh...