Cloud computing is increasingly considered as an additional computational resource platform for scientific workflows. The cloud offers opportunity to scale-out applications from d...
-- To date, not enough attention has been paid to issues surrounding the description and enforcement of policies for controlling Grid resources. These policies define the permitted...
Most space-sharing parallel computers presently operated by high-performance computing centers use batch-queuing systems to manage processor allocation. In many cases, users wishi...
The increasing numbers of cores, shared caches and memory nodes within machines introduces a complex hardware topology. High-performance computing applications now have to carefull...
Porting on grids complex MPI applications involving collective communications requires significant program modification, usually dedicated to a single grid structure. The diffi...