High-performance computing faces considerable change as the Internet and the Grid mature. Applications that once were tightly-coupled and monolithic are now decentralized, with co...
Patrick Widener, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, ...
Volunteer Computing (VC) projects harness the power of computers owned by volunteers across the Internet to perform hundreds of thousands of independent jobs. In VC projects, the ...
BOINC is a middleware for Volunteer Computing. In BOINC projects, heterogeneous resources distributed across the Internet are used for large-scale scientific simulations. The larg...
James Atlas, Trilce Estrada, Keith Decker, Michela...
Link analysis is a critical component of current Internet search engines' results ranking software, which determines the ordering of query results returned to the user. The o...
In this paper, we consider the problem of modeling machine availability in enterprise-area and wide-area distributed computing settings. Using availability data gathered from three...