— In this paper we consider implementing optical burst switching as a technology for building Grids with computationally intensive requirements. This architecture has been referr...
Marc De Leenheer, Farid Farahmand, Kejie Lu, Tao Z...
One of the goals of the EU CrossGrid project is to provide a basis for supporting the efficient execution of parallel and interactive applications on Grid environments. CrossGrid j...
—Efficient management of massive data sets is a key aspect in typical grid and e-science applications. To this end, the benefits of employing database technologies in such appl...
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...
Data Grids have been adopted as the next-generation platform by many scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process and manage large data collections distri...