This work focuses on scenarios that require the storage of large amounts of data. Such systems require the ability to either continuously increase the storage space or reclaim spa...
A common pattern in scientific computing involves the execution of many tasks that are coupled only in the sense that the output of one may be passed as input to one or more other...
Yong Zhao, Mihael Hategan, Ben Clifford, Ian T. Fo...
Client-side file caching has long been recognized as a file system enhancement to reduce the amount of data transfer between application processes and I/O servers. However, cach...
Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. ...
: Utility companies worldwide are facing a multitude of new challenges, which can not be met with the historically grown, monolithic IT systems currently in use. Service oriented a...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...