Today's manufacturing enterprises struggle to adopt cost-effective manufacturing systems.
Overview of the recent manufacturing enterprises shows that successful global …

Abstract DIRAC (Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control) is the grid solution
designed to support production activities as well as user data analysis for the Large Hadron …

Today basically two types of grid systems are in use: service grids and desktop grids.
Service grids offer an infrastructure for grid users, thus require notable management to keep …

The last two decades have seen an exceptional increase of the available networking,
computing and storage resources. Scientific research communities have exploited these …

INFN CNAF is the National Computing Center, located in Bologna, Italy, of the Italian
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). INFN CNAF, also called the INFN Tier-1 …

Bosco is a software project developed by the Open Science Grid to help scientists better
utilize their on-campus computing resources. Instead of submitting jobs through a dedicated …

The paper details the result of the EU FP7 EDGI project focusing on the cloud developments
and usability improvements. Volunteer desktop grids, like BOINC, are designed to handle …

Workflow engine is the core module in a modern SWfMS, which compose workflow planners
and workflow executors. Workflow planners take a workflow specification under some …

This paper describes the GridWay metascheduler and exposes its latest and future
developments, mainly related to interoperability and interoperation. GridWay enables large …

Nowadays, Grid Computing has been widely recognized as the next big thing in distributed
software development. Grid technologies allow developers to implement massively …