Several companies offer computation on demand for a fee. More companies are expected to enter this business over the next decade, leading to a marketplace for computation resource...
Large scale bioinformatics experiments are usually composed by a set of data flows generated by a chain of activities (programs or services) that may be modeled as scientific work...
The distributed nature of peer-to-peer networks offers a solid ground for the deployment of environments where multiple agents, managing several resources, can cooperate in pursuin...
To achieve superior performance levels when working with heterogeneous distributed platforms, processscheduling decisions must be based essentially on the platform’s features an...
Kalinka Regina Lucas Jaquie Castelo Branco, Edward...
Heterogeneous parallel systems incorporate diverse models of parallelism within a single machine or across machines and are better suited for diverse applications 25, 43, 30]. Thes...
Kathryn S. McKinley, Sharad Singhai, Glen E. Weave...