In recent years, grid technology has emerged as an important tool for solving compute‐
intensive problems within the scientific community and in industry. To further the …

Centralized cloud infrastructures have become the popular platforms for data-intensive
computing today. However, they suffer from inefficient data mobility due to the centralization …

With the increasing popularity and the need for low-cost green computing systems, new
paradigms and models such as fog, edge, and volunteer cloud computing (eg cuCloud) …

Internet based volunteer computing projects such as SETI@ home are currently restricted to
performing coarse grained, embarrassingly parallel master-worker style tasks. This is partly …

As computer networks rapidly increase in size and speed, Internet-distributed systems such
as P2P, volunteer computing, and Grid systems are increasingly common. A precise and …

Nowadays, more and more scientific applications are moving to cloud computing. The
optimal deployment of scientific applications is critical for providing good services to users …

Centralized cloud platforms have been widely utilized for data-intensive computing in many
domains. However, such systems are not suitable for geo-distributed applications since they …

Strongly promoted by the leading industrial companies, cloud computing becomes
increasingly popular in re-cent years. The growth rate of cloud computing surpasses even …

Open Distributed Systems, be it the Internet, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce systems,
Desktop Grid Systems, wireless sensor networks, or vehicular ad-hoc networks, have …

In a desktop grid model, the job (computational task) is submitted for execution in the
resource only when the resource is idle. There is no guarantee that the job which has started …