The Workflow Management System AltaVista Works has been extended to be able to process workflows in a distributed, partly even parallel manner. Build-time data are replicated over...
Grid technologies enable the sharing of a wide variety of distributed resources. To utilize these resources, effective Resource Management systems are needed. Resource Management s...
Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
In this study, we consider an environment composed of a heterogeneous cluster of multicore-based machines used to analyze satellite images. The workload involves large data sets, a...
Luis D. Briceo, Jay Smith, Howard Jay Siegel, Anth...
Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to clo...