Scheduling in Grid computing has been active area of research since its beginning.
However, beginners find very difficult to understand related concepts due to a large learning …

Retailers often use service‐level agreements (SLAs) to evaluate their supplier's
performance. Based on an examination of 70 SLAs from practice, we conclude that in terms …

Effectual allocation of resources with fault tolerance is one of the key targets in any
computational grid environment to accomplish the task execution on time. In this paper, a …

In this paper we present the Grid Scheduling Simulator (GSSIM), a comprehensive and
advanced simulation tool for distributed computing problems. Based on a classification of …

Cloud service providers, leasing resources from cloud vendors under the pay-per-use
service model, would want to minimize rental costs while meeting users' computing needs …

It is a vital necessity of a heterogeneous environment to schedule the resources efficiently
among applications to optimize the execution time to provide well-regulated services to the …

In this paper we present an overview of the CoolEmAll project which addresses the
important problem of data center energy efficiency. To this end, CoolEmAll aims at delivering …

With the increasing demand of fast computation, High performance computing is getting
evolved now a days rapidly. In Today's data era where problems are going to be huge and …

A federated database management system (FDBMS) is a special type of distributed
database system that enables existing local databases, in a heterogeneous environment, to …