Understanding and Improving the Performance Consistency of Distributed Computing Systems

With the increasing adoption of distributed systems in both academia and industry, and with the increasing computational and storage requirements of distributed applications, users inevitably demand more from these systems. Moreover, users also depend on these systems for latency and throughput sensitive applications, such as interactive...

Application-Oriented Scheduling in Multicluster Grids

Grid computing appeared in the mid 1990s with the vision of sharing geographically dispersed large computational resources for executing computation-intensive scientific applications. Today, we can name numerous grid projects that run successfully to solve challenging scientific problems such as the grid project of European Organization for...