Since the beginning of the nineties, the internet has undergone impressive growth. This
growth can be appreciated in terms of the equipment, such as routers and links, that has …

“Grid” computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional
distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applications …

The goal of the Network Weather Service is to provide accurate forecasts of dynamically
changing performance characteristics from a distributed set of metacomputing resources …

The computational grid provides a promising platform for the efficient execution of parameter
sweep applications over very large parameter spaces. Scheduling such applications is …

Today, scientists and engineers are exploring advanced applications and uses of immersive
systems that can be cost-effectively applied in their fields. However, one of the impediments …

Traditional mechanisms that allow a system to detect and recover from errors are typically
wired into applications at the level of code where they are hard to change, reuse, or analyze …

The Computational Grid is a promising platform for the efficient execution of parameter
sweep applications over large parameter spaces. To achieve performance on the Grid, such …

Accurate network topology information is important for both network management and
application performance prediction. Most topology discovery research has focused on wide …

Scheduling independent tasks on heterogeneous environments, like grids, is not trivial. To
make a good scheduling plan on this kind of environments, the scheduler usually needs …

Network-aware applications, ie, applications that adapt to network conditions in an
application-specific way, need both static and dynamic information about the network to be …