When designing SAMGrid, a project for distributing high-energy physics computations on a grid, we discovered that it was challenging to decide where to place user's jobs. Job...
A. Baranovski, Gabriele Garzoglio, Igor Terekhov, ...
This report addresses the problem of scheduling for real-time systems that include both hard and soft tasks. In order to capture the relative importance of soft tasks and how the ...
Multi-File Caching issues arise in applications where a set of jobs are processed and each job requests one or more input files. A given job can only be started if all its input fi...
As the number of resources on the Grid tends to be very dynamic and potentially large, it becomes increasingly important to discover and monitor them efficiently. This paper conce...
Helene N. Lim Choi Keung, Justin R. D. Dyson, Step...
Designing cross-organizational e-business applications faces the problem that the collaborating businesses must align their commercial interests without any central decision makin...