Scientific workflow systems have become a necessary tool for many applications, enabling
the composition and execution of complex analysis on distributed resources. Today there …

Since 1984, the Condor project has enabled ordinary users to do extraordinary computing.
Today, the project continues to explore the social and technical problems of cooperative …

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of available computing
and storage resources. Yet few tools exist that allow these resources to be exploited …

Conventional resource management systems use a system model to describe resources
and a centralized scheduler to control their allocation. We argue that this paradigm does not …

Pilot-Job systems play an important role in supporting distributed scientific computing. They
are used to execute millions of jobs on several cyberinfrastructures worldwide, consuming …

The computational grid provides a promising platform for the efficient execution of parameter
sweep applications over very large parameter spaces. Scheduling such applications is …

Since the early days of mankind the primary motivation for the establishment of communities
has been the idea that by being part of an organized group the capabilities of an individual …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

In the rapidly expanding field of parallel processing, job schedulers are the “operating
systems” of modern big data architectures and supercomputing systems. Job schedulers …

Proximity measures quantify the closeness or similarity between nodes in a social network
and form the basis of a range of applications in social sciences, business, information …