In this work we examine a task scheduling and data migration problem for Grid Networks, which we refer to as the Data Consolidation (DC) problem. DC arises when a task needs for i...
Panagiotis C. Kokkinos, Kostas Christodoulopoulos,...
We study two problems directly resulting from organizational decentralization of the Grid. Firstly, the problem of fair scheduling in systems in which the grid scheduler has compl...
Grid applications comprise several components and web-services that make them highly prone to the occurrence of transient software failures and aging problems. This type of failur...
The Grid provides facilities that support the coordinated use of diverse resources, and consequently, provides new opportunities for wide-area query processing. However, Grid resou...
Anastasios Gounaris, Jim Smith, Norman W. Paton, R...
In this paper we study a fault tolerant model for Grid environments based on the task replication concept. The basic idea is to produce and submit to the Grid multiple replicas of ...