Abstract eScience is rapidly changing the way we do research. As a result, many research
labs now need non-trivial computational power. Grid and voluntary computing are well …

Analysis of dynamic accident progression trees (ADAPT) is a mechanized procedure for the
generation of accident progression event trees. Use of ADAPT substantially reduces the …

Large distributed systems challenge traditional schedulers, as it is often hard to determine a
priori how long each task will take to complete on each resource, information that is input for …

Desktop grids, which use the idle cycles of many desktop PCs, are one of the largest
distributed systems in the world. Despite the popularity and success of many desktop grid …

Desktop grids have proved to be a suitable platform for the execution of bag-of-tasks
applications but, being characterized by a high resource volatility, require the availability of …

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 …

Many scientists perform extensive computations by executing large bags of similar tasks
(BoTs) in mixtures of computational environments, such as grids and clouds. Although the …

Desktop Grids use the computing, network and storage resources from idle desktop PC's
distributed over multiple-LAN's or the Internet to compute a large variety of resource …

Concurrent programs are more difficult to test than sequential programs because of non-
deterministic behavior. An execution of a concurrent program non-deterministically …

Desktop Grids use the computing, network and storage resources from idle desktop PCs
distributed over multiple-LANs or the Internet to compute a large variety of resource …