This paper presents a comparative study of Kerrighed, openMosix and OpenSSI, three Single System Image (SSI) operating systems for clusters. This experimental study gives an overv...
As the size and popularity of computer clusters go on growing, fault tolerance is becoming a crucial factor to ensure high performance and reliability for applications. To provide...
Antonio S. Martins, Ronaldo Augusto Lara Gon&ccedi...
Current processor allocation techniques for multicomputers are based on centralized front-end based algorithms. As a result, the applied strategies are usually restricted to stati...
Rose Rose, Hans-Ulrich Heiss, Philippe Olivier Ale...
The interaction of simultaneously co-allocated jobs can often create contention in the network infrastructure of a dedicated computational grid. This contention can lead to degrad...
William M. Jones, Louis W. Pang, Walter B. Ligon I...
Scalability is a crucial factor in performance evaluation and analysis of parallel and distributed systems. Much effort has been devoted to scalability research and several metric...