Malleability enables a parallel application's execution system to split or merge processes
modifying granularity. While process migration is widely used to adapt applications to …

Malleability enables a parallel application's execution system to split or merge processes
modifying granularity. While process migration is widely used to adapt applications to …

Using Virtual Machines (VMs) as a computing resource within a Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) creates a variety of new issues and challenges. Traditionally parallel task …

This paper proposes the Makespan and Reliability Cost Driven (MRCD) heuristic, a static
scheduling strategy for heterogeneous distributed systems that not only minimizes the …

The massive quantities of geographic information that are collected by modern sensing
technologies are difficult to use and understand without data reduction methods that …

Divisible load applications have such a rich source of parallelism that their parallelization
can significantly reduce their total completion time on cloud computing environments …

Two variants of dynamic link matching based on mathematical morphology are developed
and tested for frontal face authentication, namely, the morphological dynamic link …

Backtracking branch‐and‐prune (BP) algorithms and their variants are exhaustive search
tree techniques widely employed to solve optimization problems in many scientific areas …

As grids are in essence heterogeneous, dynamic, shared and distributed environments,
managing these kinds of platforms efficiently is extremely complex. Few transparent grid …

High-performance computing (HPC) is focused on providing large-scale compute capacity to
scientific applications. HPC schedulers tend to be optimized for large parallel batch jobs …