Scheduling is essentially a decision-making process that enables resource sharing among a
number of activities by determining their execution order on the set of available resources …

Clouds are rapidly becoming an important platform for scientific applications. In the Cloud
environment with uncountable numeric nodes, resource is inevitably unreliable, which has a …

The problem of task assignment in heterogeneous computing systems has been studied for
many years with many variations. We consider the version in which communicating tasks are …

Load balancing is a very important and complex problem in computational grids. A
computational grid differs from traditional high-performance computing systems in the …

Domain-specific systems on chip (DSSoCs) aim to narrow the gap between general-
purpose processors and application-specific designs. CPU clusters enable programmability …

A grid differs from traditional high performance computing systems in the heterogeneity of
the computing nodes as well as the communication links that connect the different nodes …

Energy usage and its associated costs have taken on a new level of significance in recent
years. Globally, energy costs that include the cooling of server rooms are now comparable to …

We consider the problem of scheduling an application on a computing system consisting of
heterogeneous processors and data repositories. The application consists of a large number …

A kind of trust mechanism-based task scheduling model was presented. Referring to the
trust relationship models of social persons, trust relationship is built among Grid nodes, and …

One of the goals of the Grid is to aggregate collections of shared, heterogeneous, and
distributed resources to provide computational 'power'to parallel applications. However …