With the significant advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) over the
last half century, there is an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the …

This keynote paper: presents a 21 st century vision of computing; identifies various
computing paradigms promising to deliver the vision of computing utilities; defines Cloud …

An efficient resource discovery mechanism is one of the fundamental requirements for grid
computing systems, as it aids in resource management and scheduling of applications …

The advent of cloud computing promises to provide computational resources to customers
like public utilities such as water and electricity. To deal with dynamically fluctuating …

Distributed clusters like the Grid and PlanetLab enable the same statistical multiplexing
efficiency gains for computing as the Internet provides for networking. One major challenge …

We consider the problem of allocating networked resources in dynamic environment, such
as cloud computing platforms, where providers strategically price resources to maximize …

In Grid computing environments, the availability, performance, and state of resources,
applications, services, and data undergo continuous changes during the life cycle of an …

Traditional resource management techniques (resource allocation, admission control and
scheduling) have been found to be inadequate for many shared Grid and distributed …

Virtualization promises to overcome the weaknesses of the current Internet and to act as a
torch bearer technology for enabling innovative network architectures. However, a …

We describe the design and implementation of SWORD, a scalable resource discovery
service for wide-area distributed systems. In contrast to previous systems, SWORD allows …