Previous to the description of the problem under study, this first chapter introduces the
reader to the environment in which it appears; namely, the grid. In this context, the grid …

Grid infrastructures constitute nowadays the core of the computing facilities of the biggest
LHC experiments. These experiments produce and manage petabytes of data per year and …

Metascheduling is a key functionality of the grid middleware in order to achieve a
reasonable degree of performance and reliability, given the changing conditions of the …

In order to achieve a reasonable degree of performance and reliability, Metascheduling has
been revealed as a key functionality of the grid middleware. The aim of this paper is to …

• RTM supports 2 graphics client programs using satellite imagery from NASA, these clients
display the Grid as it is geographically spread over the world.• There is a text version as well …

Resources on a computational Grid are geographically istributed, heterogeneous in nature,
owned by different individuals or organizations with their own scheduling policies, have …

The last version of the Globus Toolkit includes both pre-WS and WS GRAM services to
submit, monitor, and control jobs on remote Grid resources. In the medium term and until a …

The authors present the integration of the Intelligent (Grid) Scheduling System into the
VIOLA meta-scheduling environment which itself is based on the UNI-CORE Grid software …

While Grid job scheduling has received much attention in the last years, relatively few
researchers have studied data placement issues. Although job management is important in …

Grid computing aims to provide an infrastructure for distributed problem solving in dynamic
virtual organizations. It is gaining interest among many scientific disciplines as well as the …