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 …

“Grid” computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional
distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applications …

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 …

Task scheduling is an integrated component of computing. With the emergence of Grid and
ubiquitous computing, new challenges appear in task scheduling based on properties such …

Advances in hardware and software technologies have made it possible to deploy parallel
applications over increasingly large sets of distributed resources. Consequently, the study of …

Today, scientists and engineers are exploring advanced applications and uses of immersive
systems that can be cost-effectively applied in their fields. However, one of the impediments …

This work identifies challenges in managing resources in a Grid computing environment and
proposes computational economy as a metaphor for effective management of resources and …

Computational Grids, emerging as an infrastructure for next generation computing, enable
the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving …

In high-energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications
involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So …

Cloud computing has become a popular paradigm for implementing scalable computing
infrastructures provided on-demand on a case-by-case basis. Self-manageable Cloud …