Fast networks have made it possible to coordinate distributed heterogeneous CPU, memory, and storage resources to provide a powerful platform for executing high-performance applic...
—With users increasingly focused on an online world, an emerging challenge for the network infrastructure is the need to support Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (...
Increasingly, scalable distributed applications are being constructed by integrating reusable components spanning multiple administrative domains. Dynamic composition and deployme...
The existence of good probabilistic models for the job arrival process and the delay components introduced at different stages of job processing in a Grid environment is important ...
In past massively parallel processing systems, such as the TMC CM-5 and the CRI T3E, the scheduling problem consisted of allocating a single type of resource among the waiting job...