In e-business, creating a common concept set for business integration, interoperation and interaction has to consider the heterogeneity reality of different interpretations from m...
To communicate between heterogeneous computer systems, mechanisms for data conversion are necessary. In this paper we present a portable, asymmetric data conversion method that is...
Raimund Kirner, Peter P. Puschner, Ingomar Wenzel,...
The use of today’s multicluster grids exhibits periods of submission bursts with periods of normal use and even of idleness. To avoid resource contention, many users employ obse...
Omer Ozan Sonmez, Bart Grundeken, Hashim H. Mohame...
This paper presents a performance comparison of several file system allocation policies. The file systems are designed to provide high bandwidth between disks and main memory by...
Networks of Workstations (NOW) have become important and cost-effective parallel platforms for scientific computations. In practice, a NOW system is heterogeneous and non-dedicat...