The use of user specific virtual machines (VMs) in Grid and Cloud computing reduces the administration overhead associated with manually installing required software for every user...
Roland Schwarzkopf, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallen...
A challenging issue facing Grid communities is that while Grids can provide access to many heterogeneous resources, the resources to which access is provided often do not match th...
Ian T. Foster, Timothy Freeman, Katarzyna Keahey, ...
Metacomputing frameworks have received renewed attention of late, fueled both by advances in hardware and networking, and by novel concepts such as computational grids. However the...
Mauro Migliardi, Jack Dongarra, Al Geist, Vaidy S....
In this paper we analyze the performance of execution of service workflows in virtual machines (VMs) used as resources in our service-oriented grid testbed (SGT). We chosen an app...
Carlos R. Senna, Luiz F. Bittencourt, Edmundo R. M...
This paper describes JADIMA (Java Distributed Machine), a collaborative platform to construct high performance distributed JAVA applications. JADIMA is a system that automatically...