Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

Large-scale distributed computing environments provide a vast amount of heterogeneous
computing resources from different sources for resource sharing and distributed computing …

We describe the design and implementation of SWORD, a scalable resource discovery
service for wide-area distributed systems. In contrast to previous systems, SWORD allows …

Abstract The Globus Toolkit Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS4) defines and
implements mechanisms for service and resource discovery and monitoring in distributed …

atc proceedings Page 1 Service Placement in a Shared Wide-Area Platform David Oppenheimer1,
Brent Chun2, David Patterson3, Alex C. Snoeren1, and Amin Vahdat1 1UC San Diego, 2Arched …

We review the efforts of the Open Grid Computing Environments collaboration. By adopting
a general three‐tiered architecture based on common standards for portlets and Grid Web …

The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is an organization that resulted from the merger of the Global
Grid Forum (GGF) and the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA). GGF was an international …

Grid technologies are clearly evolving towards the web services architecture as a means of
structuring interactions among distributed software services. The web services-based …

Resource management is a key concern for implementing effective Grid middleware and
shielding application developers from low level details. Existing resource managers …

Usability has been increasingly recognized as an important factor in the acceptance of
systems by end users. Usability requirements can be considered to be requirements that …