This paper presents a comprehensive statistical analysis of workloads collected on data-intensive clusters and Grids. The analysis is conducted at different levels, including Virt...
Widely available and utilized Grid servers are vulnerable to a variety of threats from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, overloading caused by flash crowds, and compromised client ...
Onur Demir, Michael R. Head, Kanad Ghose, Madhusud...
—For demanding Grid applications that use resources at different cluster sites a reservation mechanism ensures the availability of resources to guarantee a certain level of QoS. ...
Christoph Barz, Peter Martini, Markus Pilz, Floria...
One of the key requirement for Grid infrastructures is the ability to share resources with nontrivial qualities of service. However, resource management in a decentralized infrast...
1 Most recent Grid middleware technologies have been aimed at the execution of sequential batch jobs. However, some users require interactive access when running jobs on Grid sites...