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Cern taps home PCs for virtual atom smashing

...that occur inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is the first distributed computing project to use virtual machines on volunteers' computers, according to Cern... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner
SpeQuloS: A QoS Service for BoT Applications Using Best Effort <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Infrastructures

SpeQuloS: A QoS Service for BoT Applications Using Best Effort Distributed Computing Infrastructures

Exploitation of Best Effort Distributed Computing Infrastructures (BE-DCIs) allow operators to maximize the utilization of the... Read more

23 April, 2012
An Overview of Checkpointing Techniques for Fault Tolerance in <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Systems

An Overview of Checkpointing Techniques for Fault Tolerance in Distributed Computing Systems

Checkpointing is an important feature in distributed computing systems. It gives fault tolerance without requiring additional efforts from the... Read more

30 January, 2012
Data Mining in Adaptive Control of <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> System Performance

Data Mining in Adaptive Control of Distributed Computing System Performance

The Distributed Computing Systems are significant building blocks in design and implementation of the... Read more

13 December, 2011
Hybrid <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Infrastructure Experiments in Grid5000: Supporting QoS in Desktop Grids With Cloud Resources

Hybrid Distributed Computing Infrastructure Experiments in Grid5000: Supporting QoS in Desktop Grids With Cloud Resources

Hybrid Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) allow users to combine Grids, Desktop Grids, Clouds, etc... Read more

17 April, 2011
Generic Data Access and Integration Service for <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Environment

Generic Data Access and Integration Service for Distributed Computing Environment

...paper presents a Generic Data Access and Integration Service GDAIS for various distributed computing environments. The service can be deployed within Peer-to-Peer, Cluster... Read more

1 September, 2010
<endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Approaches for Scalability and High Performance

Distributed Computing Approaches for Scalability and High Performance

Distributed computing is a science which solves a large problem by giving small... Read more

30 June, 2010
Incentive Mechanisms for Smartphone Collaboration in Data Acquisition and <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term>

Incentive Mechanisms for Smartphone Collaboration in Data Acquisition and Distributed Computing

...to motivate the collaboration of smartphone users on both data acquisition and distributed computing applications. Data acquisition from a large number of users is essential... Read more

15 January, 2012
iMapReduce: A <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Framework for Iterative Computation

iMapReduce: A Distributed Computing Framework for Iterative Computation

...hundreds of millions of relations. This poses demand for the design of distributed computing frameworks for processing these data on a large cluster. MapReduce is... Read more

4 June, 2011
A Framework for Reliable and Efficient Data Placement in <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Systems

A Framework for Reliable and Efficient Data Placement in Distributed Computing Systems

...The goal is to make data placement a first class citizen in distributed computing systems just like the computational jobs. They will be queued, scheduled... Read more

1 January, 2011
Serendipity: A <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Platform for Disruption Tolerant Networks

Serendipity: A Distributed Computing Platform for Disruption Tolerant Networks

...can also leverage applications that are computationally complex and will benefit from distributed computing to take full advantage of nearby computational resources. Computing over these... Read more

1 January, 2011
A Model for Teaching <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> in a Distance-Based Educational Environment

A Model for Teaching Distributed Computing in a Distance-Based Educational Environment

...Educational Environment (DEE) exist, limited literature is available on models for teaching distributed computing in a DEE Read more

23 December, 2010
A Frugal Auction Technique for Data Replication in Large <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Systems

A Frugal Auction Technique for Data Replication in Large Distributed Computing Systems

Fine-grained data replication over the Internet allows duplication of frequently accessed data objects, as opposed to... Read more

12 June, 2011
A Game Theoretical Energy Efficient Resource Allocation Technique for Large <endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> Systems

A Game Theoretical Energy Efficient Resource Allocation Technique for Large Distributed Computing Systems

The problem of mapping tasks onto a computational grid with the aim to minimize the power consumption and the makespan... Read more

12 June, 2011
<endeca_term>Distributed Computing</endeca_term> in the 21st Century: Some Aspects of Cloud Computing

Distributed Computing in the 21st Century: Some Aspects of Cloud Computing

The Cloud Computing paradigm has gained considerable attention owing to the notable commercial success of many Cloud... Read more

1 May, 2011

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