The Internet, in particular the World Wide Web, continues to expand at an amazing pace. We
propose a new infrastructure, SuperWeb, to harness global resources, such as CPU cycles …

This thesis presents the idea of volunteer computing, which allows high-performance
parallel computing networks to be formed easily, quickly, and inexpensively by enabling …

Java offers the basic infrastructure needed to integrate computers connected to the Internet
into a seamless distributed computational resource: an infrastructure for running coarse …

The use of visualization and computational steering can often assist scientists in analyzing
large-scale scientific applications. Fault tolerance to failures is of great impor tance when …

The scientific community has long used the Internet for communication of e-mail, software,
and papers. Until recently, there has been little use of the network for actual computations …

Scheduling in metacomputing environments is an active field of research as the vision of a
Computational Grid becomes more concrete. An important class of Grid applications are …

The Internet, best known by most users as the World-Wide-Web, continues to expand at an
amazing pace. We propose a new infrastructure to harness the combined resources, such …

NoC architectures are considered the next generation of communication infrastructure for
future systems-on-chip. Selection of the network architecture and mapping of IP nodes onto …

Abstract The NetSolve Grid Computing System was first developed in the mid 1990s to
provide users with seamless access to remote computational hardware and software …

Distributed systems provide sharing of resources and information over a computer network.
A key design issue that makes these systems attractive is that all aspects related to …