In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
— A key advantage of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds is providing users on-demand access to resources. However, to provide on-demand access, cloud providers must either...
—Server consolidation based on virtualization is a key ingredient for improving power efficiency and resource utilization in cloud computing infrastructures. However, to provide...
Gueyoung Jung, Matti A. Hiltunen, Kaustubh R. Josh...
Ibis is an open source software framework that drastically simplifies the process of programming and deploying large-scale parallel and distributed grid applications. Ibis suppor...
Henri E. Bal, Niels Drost, Roelof Kemp, Jason Maas...
Shared machines in opportunistic grids typically have large quantities of unused disk space. These resources could be used to store application and checkpointing data when the mac...