Rajkumar Buyya

A Taxonomy of Desktop Grids and its Mapping to State of the Art Systems (2009)

Sungjin Choi, Rajkumar Buyya, Hongsoo Kim, Eunjoung Byun, Joonmin Gil

Desktop Grid has emerged as an attractive computing paradigm for high throughput applications. However, building such systems is complicated due to resources ’ heterogeneity, failures,...

Cloudbus Toolkit for Market-Oriented Cloud Computing (2009)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Pandey, Suraj, Vecchiola, Christian

This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture for creating...

High-Performance Cloud Computing: A View of Scientific Applications (2009)

Vecchiola, Christian, Pandey, Suraj, Buyya, Rajkumar

Scientific computing often requires the availability of a massive number of computers for performing large scale experiments. Traditionally, these needs have been addressed by using high-performance...

Performance Models for Peering Content Delivery Networks (2009)

Mukaddim Pathan, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract—A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is expected to provide high performance content delivery, which requires scalable infrastructure to achieve global coverage. The provision of such...

Offer-basedScheduling ofDeadline-Constrained Bag-of-Tasks Applications forUtility Computing Systems (2009)

Marcoa. S. Netto, Rajkumar Buyya

Metaschedulers can distribute parts of a Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) application among various resource providers in order to speed up its execution. When providers cannot disclose private information such as...

Towards a Meta-Negotiation Architecture for SLA-Aware Grid Services (2009)

Ivona Brandic, Srikumar Venugopal, Michael Mattess, Rajkumar Buyya

In novel market-oriented resource sharing models resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of Service...

Jeeva: Enterprise Grid Enabled Web Portal for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction (2009)

Chao Jin, Jayavardhana Gubbi, Rajkumar Buyya, Marimuthu Palaniswami

Abstract—This paper presents a Grid portal for protein secondary structure prediction developed by using services of Aneka, a.NET-based enterprise Grid technology. The portal is used by research...

GarQ: An Efficient Scheduling Data Structure for Advance Reservations of Grid Resources (2009)

Anthony Sulistio, Uros Cibej, Sushil K. Prasad, Borut Robic, Rajkumar Buyya

In Grids, users may require assurance for completing their jobs on shared resources. Such guarantees can only be provided by reserving resources in advance. However, if many reservation requests...

Coordinated Load Management in Peer-to-Peer Coupled Federated Grid Systems (2009)

Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract — This paper proposes a coordinated load management protocol in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) coupled federated Grid systems. The participants in the system such as the resource providers and the...

GarQ: An Efficient Scheduling Data Structure for Advance Reservations of Grid Resources (2009)

Anthony Sulistio, Uros Cibej, Sushil K. Prasad, Rajkumar Buyya

In Grids, users may require assurance for completing their jobs on shared resources. Such guarantees can only be provided by reserving resources in advance. However, if many reservation requests...

Load and Proximity Aware Request-Redirection for Dynamic Load Distribution in Peering CDNs (2009)

Mukaddim Pathan, Christian Vecchiola, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. Peering between Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) endeavors to ensure that each user is served by an optimal Web server in terms of network cost, even under heavy load conditions. Therefore,...

Scheduling Parallel Applications on Utility Grids: Time and Cost Trade-off Management (2009)

Saurabh Kumar Garg, Rajkumar Buyya, H. J. Siegel

With the growth of Utility Grids and various Grid market infrastructures, the need for efficient and cost effective scheduling algorithms is also increasing rapidly, particularly in the area of...

Gridscape II: An Extensible Grid Monitoring Portal Architecture and its Integration with Google Maps (2009)

Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

A pervasive problem seen in information management is information fragmentation, where information may be fragmented by physical location, device or even by the various tools designed to help manage...

Gridbus Workflow Enactment Engine (2009)

Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya

With the advent of Grid technologies, scientists and engineers are building complex and sophisticated applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific experiments on...

5 Workflow Scheduling Algorithms for Grid Computing (2009)

Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Summary. Workflow scheduling is one of the key issues in the management of workflow execution. Scheduling is a process that maps and manages execution of inter-dependent tasks on distributed...

Advanced QoS Methods for Grid Workflows Based on Meta-Negotiations and SLA-Mappings (2009)

Ivona Br, Dejan Music, Schahram Dustdar, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

In novel market-oriented resource sharing models, resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of Service...

Chapter GRID RESOURCE BROKER FOR SCHEDULING COMPONENT-BASED APPLICATIONS ON DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES (2009)

Junwei Cao, Xingchen Chu, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

This chapter presents the design and implementation of seamless integration of two complex systems component-based distributed application framework ProActive and Gridbus Resource Broker. The...

InterGrid: A case for internetworking islands (2009)

Rajkumar Buyya, Srikumar Venugopal

Abstract: Over the last few years, several nations around the world have set up Grids to share resources such as computers, data, and instruments to enable collaborative science, engineering, and...

MetaCDN: Harnessing ‘Storage Clouds ’ for high performance content delivery (2009)

James Broberg, Rajkumar Buyya, Zahir Tari

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) such as Akamai and Mirror Image place web server clusters in numerous geographical locations to improve the responsiveness and locality of the content it hosts for...

MapReduce Programming Model for.NET-based Distributed Computing (2009)

Chao Jin, Rajkumar Buyya

Recently many data center scale of computer systems are built in order to meet the high storage and processing demands of data-intensive and computeintensive applications. MapReduce is one of the...

The Australian BioGrid portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2009)

Hussein Gibbins, Krishna Nadiminti, Brett Beeson, Rajesh K. Chhabra, Brian Smith, Rajkumar Buyya

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

Multi-Objective Problem Solving With Offspring on Enterprise Clouds (2009)

Christian Vecchiola, Michael Kirley, Rajkumar Buyya

In this paper, we present a distributed implementation of a network based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm⎯called EMO⎯by using Offspring. Network based evolutionary algorithms have proven...

and (2009)

Sungjin Choi, Rajkumar Buyya, Hongsoo Kim, Eunjoung Byun, Joonmin Gil

Desktop Grid has emerged as an attractive computing paradigm for high throughput applications. In Desktop Grid systems, numerous desktop computers owned by different individuals are employed as...

Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility (2009)

Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, Ivona Br

With the significant advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) over the last half century, there is an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the 5th utility...

and the Gridbus Project Annual Report- 2007 By (2009)

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, Associate Professor

I am pleased to report on the key activities and outcomes of Grid Computing and

Brain Image Registration Analysis Workflow for fMRI Studies on Global Grids (2009)

Suraj P, William Voorsluys, Mustafizur Rahman, Rajkumar Buyya, James Dobson, Kenneth Chiu

Scientific applications like neuroscience data analysis are usually compute and data-intensive. With the use of the additional capacity offered by distributed resources and suitable middlewares, we...

Chapter 2 A Taxonomy of CDNs (2009)

Mukaddim Pathan, Rajkumar Buyya

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) [79, 97] have received considerable research attention in the recent past. A few studies have investigated CDNs to categorize and analyze them, and to explore the...

A Market-Oriented Grid Directory Service for Publication and Discovery (2009)

Jia Yu, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. The emergence of Grids as a platform for sharing and aggregation of distributed resources increases the need for mechanisms that allow an efficient management of resources. The Grid economy...

A Meta-scheduler with Auction Based Resource Allocation for Global Grids (2009)

Saurabh Kumar Garg, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

As users increasingly require better quality of service from Grids, resource management and scheduling mechanisms have to evolve in order to satisfy competing demands on limited resources....

A Linear Programming Driven Genetic Algorithm for Meta-Scheduling on Utility Grids (2009)

Saurabh Garg, Pramod Konugurthi, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract—The user-level brokers in grids consider individual application QoS requirements and minimize their cost without considering demands from other users. This results in contention for...

An SCP-based Heuristic Approach for Scheduling Distributed Data-Intensive Applications on Global Grids (2009)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Data-intensive Grid applications need access to large datasets that may each be replicated on different resources. Minimizing the overhead of transferring these datasets to the resources where the...

Flow Networking in Grid Simulations (2009)

James Broberg, Rajkumar Buyya

Simulation tools play an essential role in the evaluation of emerging peer-to-peer, computing, service and content delivery networks. Given the scale, complexity and operational costs of such...

MRPGA: An Extension of MapReduce for Parallelizing Genetic Algorithms (2009)

Chao Jin, Christian Vecchiola, Rajkumar Buyya

The MapReduce programming model allows users to easily develop distributed applications in data centers. However, many applications cannot be exactly expressed with MapReduce due to their specific...

Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds (2009)

Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya

This chapter describes Aneka-Federation, a decentralized and distributed system that combines enterprise Clouds, overlay networking, and structured peer-to-peer techniques to create scalable...

A Pareto Following Variation Operator for Fast-Converging Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms (2009)

Ahsan Talukder, Michael Kirley, Rajkumar Buyya

One of the major difficulties when applying Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEA) to real world problems is the large number of objective function evaluations. Approximate (or surrogate)...

Energy-Efficient Scheduling of HPC Applications in Cloud Computing Environments (2009)

Garg, Saurabh Kumar, Yeo, Chee Shin, Anandasivam, Arun, Buyya, Rajkumar

The use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in commercial and consumer IT applications is becoming popular. They need the ability to gain rapid and scalable access to high-end computing capabilities....

Architecture and Performance Models for QoS-Driven Effective Peering of Content Delivery Networks (2009)

Pathan, Mukaddim, Buyya, Rajkumar

The proprietary nature of existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) means they are closed and do not naturally cooperate. A CDN is expected to provide high performance Internet content delivery...

Modeling and Simulation of Scalable Cloud Computing Environments and the CloudSim Toolkit: Challenges and Opportunities (2009)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Ranjan, Rajiv, Calheiros, Rodrigo N.

Cloud computing aims to power the next generation data centers and enables application service providers to lease data center capabilities for deploying applications depending on user QoS (Quality of...

Aneka: A Software Platform for .NET-based Cloud Computing (2009)

Vecchiola, Christian, Chu, Xingchen, Buyya, Rajkumar

Aneka is a platform for deploying Clouds developing applications on top of it. It provides a runtime environment and a set of APIs that allow developers to build .NET applications that leverage their...

CloudSim: A Novel Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Cloud Computing Infrastructures and Services (2009)

Calheiros, Rodrigo N., Ranjan, Rajiv, Buyya, Rajkumar

Cloud computing focuses on delivery of reliable, secure, fault-tolerant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructures for hosting Internet-based application services. These applications have different...

Multi-Objective Problem Solving With Offspring on Enterprise Clouds (2009)

Vecchiola, Christian, Kirley, Michael, Buyya, Rajkumar

In this paper, we present a distributed implementation of a network based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, called EMO, by using Offspring. Network based evolutionary algorithms have proven to...

Jeeva: Enterprise Grid-enabled Web Portal for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction (2009)

Jin, Chao, Gubbi, Jayavardhana, Buyya, Rajkumar, Palaniswami, Marimuthu

This paper presents a Grid portal for protein secondary structure prediction developed by using services of Aneka, a .NET-based enterprise Grid technology. The portal is used by research scientists...

A Linear Programming Driven Genetic Algorithm for Meta-Scheduling on Utility Grids (2009)

Garg, Saurabh, Konugurthi, Pramod, Buyya, Rajkumar

The user-level brokers in grids consider individual application QoS requirements and minimize their cost without considering demands from other users. This results in contention for resources and...

Simulation of Buffer Management Policies in Networks for Grids (2009)

Agustín Caminero, Anthony Sulistio, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carrión, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid technologies are emerging as the next generation of distributed computing, allowing the aggregation of resources that are geographically distributed across different locations. The network...

ExcelGrid: A.NET Plug-in for Outsourcing Excel Spreadsheet Workload to Enterprise and Global Grids (2009)

Krishna Nadiminti, Yi-feng Chiu, Nick Teoh, Akshay Luther, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Most businesses today make use of spreadsheets for a lot of their daily activities. Spreadsheets are useful tools which enable quick analysis of data, and are within the reach of every person....

A Negotiation Mechanism for Advance Resource Reservation using the Alternate Offers Protocol (2009)

Srikumar Venugopal, Xingchen Chu, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract—Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between grid users and providers have been proposed as mechanisms for ensuring that the users ’ Quality of Service (QoS) requirements are met, and that...

An Autonomic Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Hosting Stateful Web Services (2008)

Christoph Reich, Kris Bubendorfer, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract—In this paper we present an autonomic web services architecture that manages both the performance of service containers and the interconnection of those containers into a service overlay...

An Autonomic Workflow Management System for Global Grids (2008)

Mustafizur Rahman, Rajkumar Buyya

Workflow Management System is generally utilized to define, manage and execute workflow applications on Grid resources. However, the increasing scale complexity, heterogeneity and dynamism of Grid...

GRID-EMAIL: ECONOMICALLY REGULATED INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS (2008)

Manjuka Soysa, Rajkumar Buyya, Baikunth Nath

Email has emerged as a dominant form of electronic communication between people. Spam is a major problem for email users, with estimates of up to 56 % of email falling into that category. Control of...

Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds (2008)

Ranjan, Rajiv, Buyya, Rajkumar

This chapter describes Aneka-Federation, a decentralized and distributed system that combines enterprise Clouds, overlay networking, and structured peer-to-peer techniques to create scalable...

Market-Oriented Cloud Computing: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering IT Services as Computing Utilities (2008)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Yeo, Chee Shin, Venugopal, Srikumar

This keynote paper: presents a 21st century vision of computing; identifies various computing paradigms promising to deliver the vision of computing utilities; defines Cloud computing and provides...

Service and Utility Oriented Distributed Computing Systems: Challenges and Opportunities for Modeling and Simulation Communities (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya, Anthony Sulistio

Abstract: Grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as popular platforms for the next generation parallel and distributed computing. In these environments, resources are geographically...

Peer-to-Peer Grid Computing and a.NET-based Alchemi Framework (2008)

Akshay Luther, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Srikumar Venugopal

The idea of metacomputing [2] is very promising as it enables the use of a network of many independent computers as if they were one large parallel machine, or virtual supercomputer at a fraction of...

SUMMARY (2008)

Anthony Sulistio, Uros Cibej, Srikumar Venugopal, Borut Robic, Rajkumar Buyya

Data Grids are an emerging technology for managing large amounts of distributed data. This technology is highly-anticipated by scientific communities, such as in the area of astronomy and high energy...

Decentralised Resource Discovery Service for Large Scale Federated Grids (2008)

Rajiv Ranjan, Lipo Chan, Aaron Harwood, Shanika Karunasekera, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract — Efficient Resource discovery mechanism is one of the fundamental requirement for Grid computing systems, as it aids in resource management and scheduling of applications. Resource...

Gridscape II: An extensible grid monitoring portal architecture and its integration with Google Maps (2008)

Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

Apervasive problem seen in information management is information fragmentation, where information may be fragmented by physical location, device or even by the various tools designed to help manage...

Scheduling of Scientific Workflows on Data Grids (2008)

Suraj P, Rajkumar Buyya

Selection of resources for execution of scientific workflows in data grids becomes challenging with the exponential growth of files as a result of the distribution of scientific experiments around...

Education Cluster and Grid Computing: A Graduate Distributed-Computing Course (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya, Srikumar Venugopal, Quick Facts, Instructor Rajkumar Buyya

Rapid developments in the capabilities of computing, storage, and networking components and their manufacturing techniques in the last two decades have enabled commoditization of highperformance...

Abstract Service Oriented Sensor Web (2008)

Xingchen Chu, Rajkumar Buyya

The Sensor Web is an emerging trend which makes various types of web-resident sensors, instruments, image devices, and repositories of sensor data, discoverable, accessible, and controllable via the...

Work in Progress A Case for Peering of Content Delivery Networks (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya, Al-mukaddim Khan, James Broberg, Zahir Tari

Service providers often geographically distribute their Web servers ’ facilities to improve performance, reliability, and scalability. Content Delivery Networks, 1 which first evolved in 1998,...

Sla-based cooperative superscheduling algorithms for computational grids (2008)

Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes cooperative resource sharing. Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid...

Update (2008)

Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya, Aaron Harwood

Recent past has observed increase in complexities involved with grid resources including their management policies, organization and scale. Key elements that differentiate a computational grid system...

Gridscape II: An Extensible Grid Monitoring Portal Architecture and its Integration with Google Maps (2008)

Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

A pervasive problem seen in information management is information fragmentation, where information may be fragmented by physical location, device or even by the various tools designed to help manage...

Image Filtering on.NET-based Desktop Grids (2008)

Christian Vecchiola, Krishna Nadiminti, Rajkumar Buyya

Image filtering is the use of computer graphics algorithms to enhance the quality of digital images or to extract information about their content. However rendering very large size digital images on...

ExcelGrid: A.NET Plug-in for Outsourcing Excel Spreadsheet Workload to Enterprise and Global Grids (2008)

Krishna Nadiminti, Yi-feng Chiu, Nick Teoh, Akshay Luther, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract: Most businesses today make use of spreadsheets for a lot of their daily activities. Spreadsheets are useful tools which enable quick analysis of data, and are within reach of every person....

Gridscape II: A Customisable and Pluggable Grid Monitoring Portal and its Integration with Google Maps (2008)

Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid computing has emerged as an effective means of facilitating the sharing of distributed heterogeneous resources, enabling collaboration in large scale environments. However, the nature of Grid...

On Incorporating an On-line Strip Packing Algorithm into Elastic Grid Reservation-based Systems (2008)

Anthony Sulistio, Kyong Hoon Kim, Rajkumar Buyya

In Grid systems, users may require assurance for completing their jobs on shared resources. Such guarantees can only be provided by reserving resources in advance. In this paper, we introduce an...

Semantic-based grid resource discovery and its integration with the grid service broker (2008)

Thamarai Selvi Somasundaram, R. A. Balach, Vijayakumar K, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajagopalan Raman, N. Mohanram, ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the need of semantic component in the grid environment to discover and describe the grid resources semantically. We propose semantic grid architecture by introducing a...

GRID PROGRAMMING MODELS AND ENVIRONMENTS (2008)

Harold Soh, Shazia Haque, Weili Liao, Rajkumar Buyya

This chapter presents various models for creating Grid applications and runtime environments for managing the execution of applications on global Grids. The chapter discusses superscalar, message...

Model-Driven Simulation of Grid Scheduling Strategies (2008)

Hui Li, Rajkumar Buyya

Simulation studies of Grid scheduling strategies require representative workloads to produce dependable results. Real production Grid workloads have shown diverse correlation structures and scaling...

Simulation of Buffer Management Policies in Networks for Grids (2008)

Agustín Caminero, Anthony Sulistio, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carrión, Rajkumar Buyya, La Mancha

Grid technologies are emerging as the next generation of distributed computing, allowing the aggregation of resources that are geographically distributed across different locations. The network...

A Taxonomy and Survey of Content Delivery Networks (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have evolved to overcome the inherent limitations of the Internet in terms of user perceived Quality of Service (QoS) when accessing Web content. A CDN...

Open Sensor Web Architecture: Stateful Web Services (2008)

Tom Kobialka, Rajkumar Buyya, Christopher Leckie

As sensor networks become more pervasive there emerges a need for interfacing applications to perform common operations and transformations on sensor data. Web Services provide an interoperable and...

An Approach for QoS-Driven Performance Modeling of Peering Content Delivery Networks (2008)

James Broberg, Rajkumar Buyya

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is expected to provide high performance Internet content delivery through global coverage, which might be an obstacle for new CDN providers, as well as affecting...

Multilingual Interface for Grid Market Directory Services: An Experience with Supporting Tamil (2008)

S. Thamarai Selvi, Rajkumar Buyya, M. R. Rajagopalan, K. Vijayakumar, G. N. Deepak

Providing Internet and Web application interfaces in local languages is gaining popularly recently as it helps in making their services accessible to people who cannot understand English language....

Semantic-based grid resource discovery and its integration with the grid service broker (2008)

Thamarai Selvi Somasundaram, R. A. Balach, Vijayakumar K, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajagopalan Raman, N. Mohanram, ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the need of semantic component in the grid environment to discover and describe the grid resources semantically. We propose semantic grid architecture by introducing a...

Dynamic System and Control Group 1 (2008)

Yuzheng Zhai, Xingchen Chu, Arthur Hsu, Saman K Halgamuge, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. Processing the ever increasing amount of textual information is beyond the capability of typical local computing resources. The emergence of grid computing technology enables the sharing...

G-Monitor Enhanced: A Web Portal for Managing and Monitoring Application Execution on Global Grids (2008)

Martin Placek, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. G-Monitor was developed in response to the need for Web-based portals that hide low level details of accessing Grid services for deployment and execution management of applications....

Distributed Portfolio and Investment Risk Analysis on Global Grids (2008)

Rafael Moreno-vozmediano, Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

The financial services industry today produces and consumes huge amounts of data and the processes involved in analysing these data are equally huge especially in terms of their complexity. The need...

Extending GridSim with an Architecture for Failure Detection (2008)

Agustín Caminero, Anthony Sulistio, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carrión, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid technologies are emerging as the next generation of distributed computing, allowing the aggregation of resources that are geographically distributed across different locations. However, these...

Designing a Resource Broker for Heterogeneous Grids (2008)

Srikumar Venugopal, Krishna Nadiminti, Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

Grids provide uniform access to aggregations of heterogeneous resources and services such as computers, networks and storage owned by multiple organizations. However, such a dynamic environment poses...

A Resource Exchange Mechanism for Peak Load Management in InterGrid Environments (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya

The potential of the Grid computing paradigm has led to the creation of several regional and national Grid environments. These environments are, however, like “Grid islands ” with no resource...

A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm based Scheduler for ‘Clearing House Grid Broker’ (2008)

Pramod Kumar Konugurthi, Krishnan Ramakrishnan, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract- In the recent past there has been an increasing demand from users for QoS based resource selection especially in Enterprise Grids. Hence, ‘brokers ’ which schedule jobs based on the QoS...

A Dataflow System with a Local Optima-based Scheduling for Enterprise Grids (2008)

Chao Jin, Rajkumar Buyya

This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a dataflow system, including a macro-dataflow programming model, runtime system and an online scheduling algorithm, to simplify the...

Gridscape II: A Customisable and Pluggable Grid Monitoring Portal and its Integration with Google Maps (2008)

Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid computing has emerged as an effective means of facilitating the sharing of distributed heterogeneous resources, enabling collaboration in large scale environments. However, the nature of Grid...

Enabling the Simulation of Service-Oriented Computing (2008)

Werner Streitberger, Torsten Eymann, Rajkumar Buyya

A key issue in utility computing environments, such as utility Grids, is the provisioning, orchestration and allocation of resources to services. In these environments, providers need to decide how...

Model-Driven Simulation of Grid Scheduling Strategies (2008)

Hui Li, Rajkumar Buyya

Simulation studies of Grid scheduling strategies require representative workloads to produce dependable results. Real production Grid workloads have shown diverse correlation structures and scaling...

ABSTRACT MULTIMEDIA ON GLOBAL GRIDS: A CASE STUDY IN DISTRIBUTED RAY TRACING (2008)

Bader Aljaber, Thomas Jacobs, Krishna Nadiminti, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid computing, a form of distributed computing, has become a hot topic recently. Currently, there are many ways in which Grids are being used in order to enhance existing IT infrastructure to better...

Abstract A Self-Organising Federation of Alchemi Desktop Grids (2008)

Rajiv Ranjan, Xingchen Chu, Carlos A. Queiroz, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

Desktop grids presents a next generation platform for aggregating the idle processing cycles of desktop computers. However, in order to efficiently harness the power of millions of desktop computers,...

Image Image Filtering Filtering on on.NET.NET-based.NET based Desktop Desktop Grids Grids (2008)

Christian Vecchiola, Krishna Nadiminti, Rajkumar Buyya

Image filtering is the use of computer graphics algorithms to enhance the quality of digital images or to extract information about their content. However rendering very large size digitial images on...

A Flexible Resource Co-Allocation Model based on Advance Reservations with Rescheduling Support (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya

Several parallel and distributed applications require simultaneous access to resources located in multiple administrative domains. Current research on resource co-allocation relies on either rigid...

Design Framework of Compute Power Market for Peer-to-Peer and Grid Environments (2008)

Gian Ch, Fazilah Haron, Tan Tien Ping, Anthony Wong, Kee Ling, Wei Hoo Chong, ...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and grid computing are concerned with pooling and coordinating resources across the internet. Similar issues arise in both, for example resource discovery, monitoring, resource...

A Grid Based e-Research Platform for Clinical Management in the Human Respiratory and Vascular System (2008)

Sherman Cheung, Xingchen Chu, Shengjin Xu, Rajkumar Buyya, Jiyuan Tu

A Grid based e-Research platform is being developed for providing a simulation-based virtual reality environment for clinical management and therapy treatment. The development of this platform...

Fair Resource Sharing in Hierarchical Virtual Organizations for Global Grids (2008)

Kyong Hoon Kim, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract — In global Grid computing, users and resource providers organize various Virtual Organizations (VOs) to share resources and services. A VO organizes other sub-VOs for the purpose of...

Enabling the Simulation of Service-Oriented Computing and Provisioning Policies for Autonomic Utility Grids (2008)

Werner Streitberger, Torsten Eymann, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. There are key challenges in utility computing environments such as the provisioning, orchestration and allocation of resources to services. In these environments, providers need to decide...

A DATAFLOW MODEL FOR.NET-BASED GRID COMPUTING SYSTEMS (2008)

Chao Jin, Rajkumar Buyya, Lex Stein, Zheng Zhang

This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a dataflow system, including a dataflow programming model and a dataflow engine, for coarse-grained distributed data intensive...

Service, Sensor Planning Service and Web Notification (2008)

Xingchen Chu, Tom Kobialka, Bohdan Durnota, Rajkumar Buyya

As sensor network deployments begin to grow there emerges an increasing need to overcome the obstacles of connecting and sharing heterogeneous sensor resources. Common data operations and...

Extending GridSim with an Architecture for Failure Detection (2008)

Agustín Caminero, Anthony Sulistio, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carrión, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid technologies are emerging as the next generation of distributed computing, allowing the aggregation of resources that are geographically distributed across different locations. However, these...

Sciences (2008)

Xingchen Chu, Andrew Lonie, Peter Harris, All Thomas, Rajkumar Buyya

In this paper, we present a Grid computing platform that provides experimental scientists and analysts with access to computational simulations and knowledge databases hosted in separate laboratories...

A Sensor Web Middleware with Stateful Services for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (2008)

Tomasz Kobialka, Rajkumar Buyya, Christopher Leckie, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri

As sensor networks become more pervasive there emerges a need for interfacing applications to perform common operations and transformations on sensor data. Web Services provide an interoperable and...

Designing a Resource Broker for Heterogeneous Grids (2008)

Srikumar Venugopal, Krishna Nadiminti, Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

Grids provide uniform access to aggregations of heterogeneous resources and services such as computers, networks and storage owned by multiple organizations. However, such a dynamic environment poses...

Integrated Risk Analysis for a Commercial Computing Service (2008)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

Utility computing has been anticipated to be the next generation of computing usage. Users have the freedom to easily switch to any commercial computing service to complete jobs whenever the need...

Multilingual Interface for Grid Market Directory Services: An Experience with Supporting Tamil (2008)

Thamarai Selvi Somasundaram, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajagopalan Raman, Vijayakumar K, Deepak Neethimani

Providing Internet and Web application interfaces in local languages is gaining popularly recently as it helps in making their services accessible to people who cannot understand English language....

ABSTRACT Multiobjective Differential Evolution for Workflow Execution on Grids (2008)

Ahsan Talukder, Michael Kirley, Rajkumar Buyya

Most algorithms developed for scheduling applications on global Grids focus on a single Quality of Service (QoS) parameter such as execution time, cost or total data transmission time. However, if we...

Message Passing over.NET-based Desktop Grids (2008)

Carlos Queiroz, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. The use of virtual machines and the object-oriented paradigm has became popular in both industry and academy. The.NET platform is similar to Java but with advantages such as supporting...

Power Aware Scheduling of Bag-of-Tasks Applications with Deadline Constraints on DVS-enabled Clusters (2008)

Kyong Hoon Kim, Rajkumar Buyya

Power-aware scheduling problem has been a recent issue in cluster systems not only for operational cost due to electricity cost, but also for system reliability. As recent commodity processors...

Grid Federation: An Economy Based, Scalable Distributed Resource Management System for Large-Scale Resource Coupling (2008)

Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

Research interest in Grid computing has grown significantly over the past five years. Management of distributed resources is one of the key issues in Grid computing.Central to management of resources...

Alchemi: A .NET-based Grid Computing Framework and its Integration into Global Grids (2008)

Akshay Luther, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Srikumar Venugopal

Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. Software to...

SensorGrid: Integrating Sensor Networks and Grid Computing (2008)

Chen-khong Tham, Rajkumar Buyya

this article is as follows. In Section 2, we describe a simple way to realize sensor-grid computing which we call the centralized approach. We then point out some of its weaknesses and describe a...

Critical-Path and Priority Based Algorithms for Scheduling Workflows with Parameter Sweep Tasks on Global Grids (2008)

Tianchi Ma, Rajkumar Buyya

Parameter-sweep has been widely adopted in large numbers of scientific applications. Parameter-sweep features need to be incorporated into Grid workflows so as to increase the scale and scope of such...

The Gridbus Grid Service Broker and Scheduler (2.0) User Guide (2008)

Krishna Nadiminti Srikumar, Srikumar Venugopal, Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 4 1.1 Grid Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Resource Brokers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

On Incorporating Differentiated Network Service into GridSim (2008)

Anthony Sulistio, Gokull Poduval, Rajkumar Buyya, Chen-Khong Tham

Grid computing technologies are increasingly being used to aggregate computing resources that are geographically distributed across different locations. Commercial networks are being used to connect...

Peer-to-Peer Grid Computing and a .NET-based Alchemi Framework (2008)

Akshay Luther, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Srikumar Venugopal

Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. Software to...

Concurrency And Computation: Practice And Experience (2008)

Concurrency Computat Pract, Rajkumar Buyya, Manzur Murshed

this paper has a major orientation towards Grid, however, we believe that our discussion and thoughts apply equally well to P2P systems since resource management and scheduling issues in both systems...

Software---Practice And Experience (2008)

Softw Pract Exper, Klaus Krauter, Rajkumar Buyya, Muthucumaru Maheswaran

MODEL Experience with large scale network computing systems has shown that efficient application and system performances are not necessarily the same [17]. More specifically, it may not be possible...

Software---Practice And Experience (2008)

Softw Pract Exper, Anthony Sulistio, Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya, John Wiley

this paper is to develop a comprehensive taxonomy for design of computer-based simulations, and apply this taxonomy to categorize and analyze various simulation tools for parallel and distributed...

Cluster Computing in the Classroom and Integration (2008)

With Computing Curricula, Amy Apon, Jens Mache, Rajkumar Buyya, Hai Jin

With the progress of research on cluster computing, many universities have begun to offer various courses covering cluster computing. A wide variety of content can be taught in these courses. Because...

A Decentralized and Cooperative Workflow Scheduling Algorithm (2008)

Rajiv Ranjan, Mustafizur Rahman, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract — In the current approaches to workflow scheduling, there is no cooperation between the distributed workflow brokers and as a result, the problem of conflicting schedules occur. To...

Performance analysis of multiple site resource provisioning: Effects of the precision of availability information (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. Emerging deadline-driven Grid applications require a number of computing resources to be available over a time frame, starting at a specific time in the future. To enable these...

Performance analysis of multiple site resource provisioning: Effects of the precision of availability information (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya

Emerging deadline-driven Grid applications require a number of computing resources to be available over a time frame, starting at a specific time in the future. To enable these applications in Grids,...

Market-oriented cloud computing: Vision, hype, and reality for delivering IT services as computing utilities, in (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal

This keynote paper: presents a 21 st century vision of computing; identifies various computing paradigms promising to deliver the vision of computing utilities; defines Cloud computing and provides...

A Negotiation Mechanism for Advance Resource Reservation using the Alternate Offers Protocol (2008)

Srikumar Venugopal, Xingchen Chu, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract—Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between grid users and providers have been proposed as mechanisms for ensuring that the users ’ Quality of Service (QoS) requirements are met, and that...

A cost-aware resource exchange mechanism for load management across Grids (2008)

Rajkumar Buyya

Numerous Grids have been created during the last years. Most of these Grids work in isolation and with different utilisation levels. As the resource utilisation within a Grid has fixed and...

Autonomic metered pricing for a utility computing service (2008)

Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, Xingchen Chu, Rajkumar Buyya

An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metered usage based on...

Informatica 17 page xxx--yyy 1 Mobile Cluster Computing and Timeliness Issues (2007)

Haihong Zheng, Rajkumar Buyya, Sourav Bhattacharya

With the rapid advancement and extensive deployment of cluster computing and mobile communication, the integration of these two technologies has become feasible and lead to the emergence of a new...

The Evaluation of Grid Resource Trading Middleware Services (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy

The growing popularity of the Internet and the availability of powerful computers and high-speed networks as lowcost commodity components are changing the way we do computing and use computers today....

SUMMARY (2007)

Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya

The availability of high-speed networks and increasingly powerful commodity microprocessors is making the usage of clusters, or networks, of computers an appealing vehicle for cost effective parallel...

Cluster Computing Tools, Applications, and Australian Initiatives for Low Cost Supercomputing (2007)

Hai Jin, Rajkumar Buyya, Mark Baker

Abstract: Cluster computing has become the paradigm of choice for executing large-scale science, engineering, and commercial applications. This is due to their low cost, high performance,...

Grid Resource Management, Scheduling and Computational Economy (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy

This paper identifies the issues in resource management and scheduling in the emerging grid computing context and briefly discusses techniques for scheduling using computational economy concept. In...

Hardware System Simulation (2007)

Sharman And Powers, Rajkumar Buyya, D. K. Sharman

Introduction Electronic devices are becoming increasingly larger, more integrated, powerful and difficult to design, so that simulation must play an ever-increasing and important role. With these...

Parallel Programming Models and Paradigms (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya

Introduction In the 1980s it was believed computer performance was best improved by creating faster and more efficient processors. This idea was challenged by parallel processing, which in essence...

Using GridSim Toolkit for Supercharging Grid Computing Education (2007)

Manzur Murshed, Rajkumar Buyya

Numerous research groups in universities, research labs, and industries around the world are now working on Computational Grids or simply Grids that enable aggregation of distributed resources for...

The Virtual Laboratory: Enabling On-Demand Drug Design with the World Wide Grid (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya, Kim Branson, Jon Giddy, David Abramson

Abstract: Computational Grids are emerging as a popular paradigm for solving large-scale compute and data intensive problems in science, engineering, and commerce. However, application composition,...

Global Grid Forum: Grid Computing Environments Community Practice (CP) Document Project Title: Nimrod/G Problem Solving Environment and Computational Economies (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya

The accelerated development in Grid and peer-to-peer computing systems has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the coordinated or regulated use of...

COMPUTING APPLICATIONS SINGLE SYSTEM IMAGE (SSI) SINGLE SYSTEM IMAGE (SSI) (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya, Toni Cortes, Hai Jin

A single system image (SSI) is the property of a system that hides the heterogeneous and distributed nature of the available resources and presents them to users and applications as a single unified...

Designing a Resource Broker for Heterogeneous Grids (2007)

Venugopal, Srikumar, Nadiminti, Krishna, Gibbins, Hussein, Buyya, Rajkumar

Grids provide uniform access to aggregations of heterogeneous resources and services such as computers, networks and storage owned by multiple organizations. However, such a dynamic environment poses...

Peer-to-Peer Based Resource Discovery in Global Grids: A Tutorial (2007)

Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

Efficient Resource discovery mechanism is one of the fundamental requirement for Grid computing systems, as it aids in resource management and scheduling of applications. Resource discovery activity...

Engineering an Autonomic Container for WSRF-based Web Services (2007)

Christoph Reich, Matthias Banholzer, Rajkumar Buyya, Kris Bubendorfer

This paper presents an autonomic Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) container that enables selfconfiguration using IBM’s autonomic computing (AC) architecture and resolves Quality of Service...

Aneka: Next-Generation Enterprise Grid Platform for e-Science and e-Business (2007)

Xingchen Chu, Krishna Nadiminti, Chao Jin, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

In this paper, we present the design of Aneka, a.NET based service-oriented platform for desktop grid computing that provides: (i) a configurable service container hosting pluggable services for...

Economy-based content replication for peering CDNs. TCSC Doctoral Symposium (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg, Kris Bubendorfer

Abstract: Existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) exhibit the nature of closed delivery networks which do not cooperate with other CDNs and in practice, islands of CDNs are formed. The logical...

InterGrid: A case for internetworking islands of Grids (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya, Srikumar Venugopal

Abstract: Over the last few years, several nations around the world have set up Grids to share resources such as computers, data, and instruments to enable collaborative science, engineering, and...

An Architecture for Virtual Organization (VO)-Based Effective Peering of Content Delivery Networks, UPGRADE-CN’07 (2007)

James Broberg, Kris Bubendorfer, Kyong Hoon Kim, Rajkumar Buyya

The proprietary nature of existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) means they are closed and do not naturally cooperate, resulting in “islands ” of CDNs. Finding ways for distinct CDNs to...

SLA-Oriented Management of Containers for Hosting Stateful Web Services (2007)

Christoph Reich, Kris Bubendorfer, Matthias Banholzer, Rajkumar Buyya

Service-Oriented Architectures provide integration of interoperability for independent and loosely coupled services. Web services and the associated new standards such as WSRF are frequently used to...

Economy-based content replication for peering CDNs. TCSC Doctoral Symposium (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya

Existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) by nature are closed delivery networks which do not cooperate with other CDNs and in practice, islands of CDNs are formed. The current logical separation...

A dynamic critical path algorithm for scheduling scientific workflow applications on global grids (2007)

Mustafizur Rahman, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Effective scheduling is a key concern for the execution of performance driven Grid applications. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Critical Path (DCP) based workflow scheduling algorithm that...

R.: Impact of adaptive resource allocation requests in utility cluster computing environments (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya

Maximizing resource provider profit and satisfying user requirements at the same time is a challenging problem in utility computing environments. In this paper, we introduce adaptive resource...

A SLA-Oriented WSRF Container Architecture (2007)

Christoph Reich, Kris Bubendorfer, Matthias Banholzer, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. Service-Oriented Architectures provide integration of and interoptablity for independent and loosely coupled services. Web services and the WSRF standards are frequently used to realise...

InterGrid: A case for internetworking islands of Grids (2007)

Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract: Over the last few years, several Grids have been set up to share resources such as computers, data, and instruments to enable collaborative research. These Grids follow models and...

A Scalable Self-Managing Architecture for WSRF Services (2007)

Christoph Reich, Kris Bubendorfer, Rajkumar Buyya

Service-Oriented Architectures provide integration of and interoptablity for independent and loosely coupled services. Web services and the WSRF standards are frequently used to realise such...

A scalable, robust, and decentralised resource discovery service for large scale federated grids (2007)

Rajiv Ranjan, Lipo Chan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya, Shanika Karunasekera

Abstract — Efficient Resource discovery mechanism is one of the fundamental requirement for Grid computing systems, as it aids in resource management and scheduling of applications. Resource...

Peer-to-peer tuple space: a novel protocol for coordinated resource provisioning (2007)

Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

Resource brokering services are the main components that control the way applications are scheduled, managed and allocated in a decentralised, heterogeneous and dynamic Grid computing environment....

Market-oriented Grids and Utility Computing: The state-of-the-art and future directions (2007)

James Broberg, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Traditional resource management techniques (resource allocation, admission control and scheduling) have been found to be inadequate for many shared Grid and distributed systems that face...

Autonomic container for hosting wsrf-based web services (2007)

Christoph Reich, Matthias Banholzer, Rajkumar Buyya

This paper proposes and presents an autonomic Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) container that enables self-configuration using IBM’s autonomic computing (AC) architecture and resolves resource...

2007a, ‘Integrated Risk Analysis for a Commercial Computing Service (2007)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. Recent technological advances in grid computing enable the virtualization and dynamic delivery of computing services on demand to realize utility computing. In utility computing, computing...

www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs A case for cooperative and incentive-based federation of distributed clusters ✩ (2007)

Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

Research interest in Grid computing has grown significantly over the past five years. Management of distributed resources is one of the key issues in Grid computing. Central to management of...

Economy-based Content Replication for Peering Content Delivery Networks (2006)

Pathan, Al-Mukaddim Khan, Buyya, Rajkumar, Broberg, James, Bubendorfer, Kris

Existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) exhibit the nature of closed delivery networks which do not cooperate with other CDNs and in practice, islands of CDNs are formed. The logical separation...

A Taxonomy of Peer-to-Peer Based Complex Queries: a Grid perspective (2006)

Ranjan, Rajiv, Harwood, Aaron, Buyya, Rajkumar

Grid superscheduling requires support for efficient and scalable discovery of resources. Resource discovery activities involve searching for the appropriate resource types that match the user's job...

A Case for Peering of Content Delivery Networks (2006)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Pathan, Al-Mukaddim Khan, Broberg, James, Tari, Zahir

The proliferation of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) reveals that existing content networks are owned and operated by individual companies. As a consequence, closed delivery networks are evolved...

SLA-Based Coordinated Superscheduling Scheme and Performance for Computational Grids (2006)

Ranjan, Rajiv, Harwood, Aaron, Buyya, Rajkumar

The Service Level Agreement~(SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes coordinated resource sharing. Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid...

A Case for Cooperative and Incentive-Based Coupling of Distributed Clusters (2006)

Ranjan, Rajiv, Harwood, Aaron, Buyya, Rajkumar

Research interest in Grid computing has grown significantly over the past five years. Management of distributed resources is one of the key issues in Grid computing. Central to management of...

Gridscape II: A Customisable and Pluggable Grid Monitoring Portal and its Integration with Google Maps (2006)

Gibbins, Hussein, Buyya, Rajkumar

Grid computing has emerged as an effective means of facilitating the sharing of distributed heterogeneous resources, enabling collaboration in large scale environments. However, the nature of Grid...

Utility Computing and Global Grids (2006)

Yeo, Chee Shin, De Assuncao, Marcos Dias, Yu, Jia, Sulistio, Anthony, Venugopal, Srikumar, Placek, Martin, ...

This chapter focuses on the use of Grid technologies to achieve utility computing. An overview of how Grids can support utility computing is first presented through the architecture of Utility Grids....

Economy-based data replication broker (2006)

Lin, Henry, Abawajy, Jemal, Buyya, Rajkumar

Data replication is one of the key components in data grid architecture as it enhances data access and reliability and minimises the cost of data transmission. In this paper, we address the problem...

A taxonomy of data grids for distributed data sharing, management, and processing (2006)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri

Data Grids have been adopted as the next-generation platform by many scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process and manage large data collections distributed worldwide....

Cluster Computing: High-Performance, High-Availability, and High-Throughput Processing on a Network of Computers (2006)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya, Hossein Pourreza, Rasit Eskicioglu, Peter Graham, Frank Sommers

The first inspiration for cluster computing was developed in the 1960s by IBM as an alternative of linking large mainframes to provide a more cost effective form of commercial parallelism [1]. At...

Scheduling Distributed Data-Intensive Applications on Global Grids (2006)

Srikumar Venugopal, Srikumar Venugopal, Supervisors Dr, Rajkumar Buyya, Prof Rao Kotagiri

The next generation of scientific experiments and studies are being carried out by large collaborations of researchers distributed around the world engaged in analysis of huge collections of data...

A Taxonomy of Data Grids for Distributed Data Sharing, Management and Processing (2006)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Data Grids have been adopted as the platform for scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process and manage large data collections distributed worldwide. They combine high-end...

Managing Risk of Inaccurate Runtime Estimates for Deadline Constrained Job Admission Control in Clusters (2006)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

The advent of service-oriented Grid computing has resulted in the need for Grid resources such as clusters to enforce user-specific service needs and expectations. Service Level Agreements (SLAs)...

A Toolkit for Modelling and Simulation of Data Grids with Integration of Data Storage, Replication and Analysis (2006)

Anthony Sulistio, Uros Cibej, Borut Robic, Rajkumar Buyya

Data Grids are an emerging new technology for managing large amounts of distributed data. This technology is highly-anticipated by scientific communities, such as in the area of astronomy, protein...

A Set Coverage-based Mapping Heuristic for Scheduling Distributed Data-Intensive Applications on Global Grids (2006)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Data-intensive Grid applications need access to large datasets that may each be replicated on different resources. Minimizing the overhead of transferring these datasets to the resources where the...

An Evaluation of Communication Demand of Auction Protocols in Grid Environments (2006)

Marcos Dias, De Assunção, Rajkumar Buyya

this paper is organized as follows. Firstly, we present the motivations as well as background ideas in Section 2. Section 3 presents a description of the framework for the simulation of auction...

An Evaluation of Communication Demand of Auction Protocols in Grid Environments (2006)

Marcos Dias, De Assunção, Rajkumar Buyya

Dynamic pricing and good level of Pareto optimality make auctions more attractive for resource allocation over other economic models. However, some auction models present drawbacks regarding the high...

A Grid Service Broker for Scheduling e-Science Applications on Global Data Grids (2006)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Lyle Winton

The next generation of scientific experiments and studies, popularly called e-Science, is carried out by large collaborations of researchers distributed around the world engaged in analysis of huge...

Imprecise Computation Grid Application Model for Flexible Market-based Resource Allocation (2006)

Kyong Hoon Kim, Rajkumar Buyya, Jong Kim

Market-based resource management is becoming an emerging issue as the utilization of Grid computing is growing rapidly, particularly in the business field. In this paper, we provide a new Imprecise...

A Budget Constrained Scheduling of Workflow Applications on Utility Grids using Genetic Algorithms (2006)

Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract—Over the last few years, Grid technologies have progressed towards a service-oriented paradigm that enables a new way of service provisioning based on utility computing models. Users...

Cluster Computing: High-Performance, High-Availability, and High-Throughput Processing on a Network of Computers (2006)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya, Hossein Pourreza, Rasit Eskicioglu, Peter Graham, Frank Sommers

The first inspiration for cluster computing was developed in the 1960s by IBM as an alternative of linking large mainframes to provide a more cost effective form of commercial parallelism [1]. At...

A study on peer-to-peer based discovery of grid resource information (2006)

Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

Efficient Resource discovery mechanism is one of the fundamental requirement for Grid computing systems, as it aids in resource management and scheduling of applications. Resource discovery activity...

Storage exchange: A global trading platform for storage services (2006)

Martin Placek, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. The Storage Exchange (SX) is a new platform allowing storage to be treated as a tradeable resource. Organisations with varying storage requirements can use the SX platform to trade and...

A taxonomy of data grids for distributed data sharing, management, and processing (2006)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Data Grids have been adopted as the next generation platform by many scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process, and manage large data collections distributed worldwide....

KidneyGrid: A Grid Platform for Integration of Distributed Kidney Models and Resources (2006)

Xingchen Chu, Andrew Lonie, Peter Harris, All Thomas, Rajkumar Buyya

In this paper, we present a grid computing platform that provides experimental scientists and analysts with access to computational simulations and knowledge databases hosted in separate laboratories...

A SLA-based coordinated superscheduling scheme and performance for computational grids (2006)

Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes coordinated resource sharing. Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid...

Storage exchange: A global trading platform for storage services (2006)

Martin Placek, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. The Storage Exchange (SX) is a new platform allowing storage to be treated as a tradeable resource. Organisations with varying storage requirements can use the SX platform to trade and...

Managing risk of inaccurate runtime estimates for deadline constrained job admission control in clusters (2006)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

The advent of service-oriented Grid computing has resulted in the need for Grid resources such as clusters to enforce user-specific service needs and expectations. Service Level Agreements (SLAs)...

Scheduling scientific workflow applications with deadline and budget constraints using genetic algorithms (2006)

Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract—Grid technologies have progressed towards a service-oriented paradigm that enables a new way of service provisioning based on utility computing models, which are capable of supporting...

Policy-based resource allocation in hierarchical virtual organizations for global grids (2006)

Kyong Hoon Kim, Rajkumar Buyya

In recent years, many studies have been conducted on Grid computing, in which users and resource providers organize various Virtual Organizations (VOs) to share resources and services. A VO organizes...

Data Replication Strategies in Wide Area Distributed Systems,” Enterprise Service Computing: From Concept to Deployment (2006)

Sushant Goel, Rajkumar Buyya

Effective data management in today’s competitive enterprise environment is an important issue. Data is information; and information is knowledge. Hence, fast and effective access to data is very...

Advanced Reservation-based Scheduling of Task Graphs on Clusters (2006)

Anthony Sulistio, Wolfram Schiffmann, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. A Task Graph (TG) is a model of a parallel program that consists of many subtasks that can be executed simultaneously on different processing elements. Subtasks exchange data via an...

Message Passing over Windows-based Desktop Grids (2006)

Carlos Queiroz, Rajkumar Buyya

Message Passing is a mechanism to enable inter-process communication in parallel and distributed computing. Complex scientific and engineering applications have been developed upon such a...

Open Sensor Web Architecture: Core Services (2006)

Xingchen Chu, Tom Kobialka, Rajkumar Buyya

As sensor network deployments begin to grow there emerges an increasing need to overcome the obstacles of connecting and sharing heterogeneous sensor resources. Common data operations and...

A Case for Peering of Content Delivery Networks (2006)

Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg, Zahir Tari

Abstract: The proliferation of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) reveals that existing content networks are owned and operated by individual companies. As a consequence, closed delivery networks are...

A dataflow system for unreliable computing environments (2006)

Chao Jin, Zheng Zhang, Lex Stein, Rajkumar Buyya

This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a dataflow system, including a dataflow programming model and a dataflow engine, for coarse-grained distributed data intensive...

KidneyGrid: A Grid Platform for Integration of Distributed Kidney Models and Resources (2006)

Xingchen Chu, Andrew Lonie, Peter Harris, All Thomas, Rajkumar Buyya

In this paper, we present a grid computing platform that provides experimental scientists and analysts with access to computational simulations and knowledge databases hosted in separate laboratories...

Scheduling Distributed Data-Intensive Applications on Global Grids (2006)

Srikumar Venugopal, Srikumar Venugopal, Supervisors Dr, Rajkumar Buyya, Prof Rao Kotagiri

The next generation of scientific experiments and studies are being carried out by large collaborations of researchers distributed around the world engaged in analysis of huge collections of data...

Managing risk of inaccurate runtime estimates for deadline constrained job admission control in clusters (2006)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

The advent of service-oriented Grid computing has resulted in the need for Grid resources such as clusters to enforce user-specific service needs and expectations. Service Level Agreements (SLAs)...

Economy-based data replication broker (2006)

Lin, Henry, Abawajy, Jemal, Buyya, Rajkumar

Data replication is one of the key components in data grid architecture as it enhances data access and reliability and minimises the cost of data transmission. In this paper, we address the problem...

A Taxonomy of Data Grids for Distributed Data Sharing, Management and Processing (2005)

Venugopal, Srikumar, Buyya, Rajkumar, Ramamohanarao, Kotagiri

Data Grids have been adopted as the platform for scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process and manage large data collections distributed worldwide. They combine high-end...

A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing (2005)

Yu, Jia, Buyya, Rajkumar

With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific...

The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, Rajkumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, RajKumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, Rajkumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, Rajkumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, Rajkumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, Rajkumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, Rajkumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

A Taxonomy of Global Data Grids (2005)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri

Data Grids have been adopted as the platform for scientific applications that need to access, transport and process large data collections distributed worldwide. They combine high-end computing...

ADynamic Job Grouping-Based Scheduling for Deploying Applications with Fine-Grained Tasks on Global Grids (2005)

Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Junyang Liu, Nay Lin Soe, Srikumar Venugopal, Anthony Sulistio, Rajkumar Buyya

Although Grids have been used extensively for executing applications with compute-intensive jobs, there exist several applications with a large number of lightweight jobs. The overall processing...

A Toolkit for Modelling and Simulation of Data Grids with Integration of Data Storage, Replication and Analysis (2005)

Uros Cibej, Anthony Sulistio, Borut Robic, Rajkumar Buyya

Data Grids are an emerging new technology for managing large amounts of distributed data. This technology is highly-anticipated by scientific communities, such as in the area of astronomy, protein...

The Gridbus Grid Service Broker and Scheduler (v.2.4) User Guide (2005)

Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Hussein Gibbins, Tianchi Ma, Rajkumar Buyya

INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 3 1.1 Grid Computing...

The Grid Economy (2005)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Srikumar Venugopal

This paper identifies challenges in managing resources in a Grid computing environment and proposes computational economy as a metaphor for effective management of resources and application...

A Time Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling Bag-of-Task Applications in Auction-based Proportional Share Systems (2005)

Anthony Sulistio, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid and peer-to-peer (P2P) network technologies enable aggregation of distributed resources for solving large-scale and computationally-intensive applications. These technologies are well-suited for...

Constructing a Grid Simulation with Differentiated Network Service Using GridSim (2005)

Anthony Sulistio, Gokul Poduval, Rajkumar Buyya, Chen-Khong Tham

Grid computing technologies are increasingly being used to aggregate computing resources that are geographically distributed across different locations. Commercial networks are being used to connect...

A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing (2005)

Jia Yu And, Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya

With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific...

GTPE: A Thread Programming Environment for the Grid (2005)

Harold Soh Shazia, Harold Soh, Shazia Haque, Weili Liao, Krishna Nadiminti, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid computing has emerged as a viable method for solving computational and data intensive problems, applicable over various domains from business computing to scientific research. However, grid...

An Integration of Global and Enterprise Grid Computing: Gridbus Broker and Xgrid Perspective (2005)

Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Tianchi Ma, Rajkumar Buyya

Several middleware for grid computing have been proposed aiming at providing means to access resources in a uniform and secure way, hiding the idiosyncrasies of heterogeneous resources. In this work...

Scheduling Parameter Sweep Applications On Global Grids: A Deadline And . . . (2005)

Softw Pract Exper, Rajkumar Buyya, Manzur Murshed, Srikumar Venugopal

this paper, we propose a new scheduling algorithm, called the DBC cost--time optimization scheduling algorithm, that aims not only to optimize cost, but also time when possible. The performance of...

Global Grids and Software Toolkits: (2005)

Study Of Four, Parvin Asadzadeh, Rajkumar Buyya, Chun Ling Kei, Deepa Nayar, Srikumar Venugopal

Grid is an infrastructure that involves the integrated and collaborative use of computers, networks, databases and scientific instruments owned and managed by multiple organizations. Grid...

A Platform for Distributed Analysis of Neuroimaging Data on Global Grids (2005)

Scott Kolbe Tianchi, Scott Kolbe, Tianchi Ma, Wei Liu, Wee Siong Soh, Rajkumar Buyya, ...

This paper presents a Grid environment developed for analysis of MRI brain data on global Grids. In the current experiment, the MRI data analysis tasks are composed and formulated as a parameter...

A Time Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling Bag-of-Task Applications in Auction-based Proportional Share Systems (2005)

Anthony Sulistio, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid and peer-to-peer (P2P) network technologies enable aggregation of distributed resources for solving large-scale and computationally-intensive applications. These technologies are well-suited for...

Alchemi: A .NET-based Enterprise Grid Computing System (2005)

Akshay Luther, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Srikumar Venugopal

Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. Software to...

GTPE: A Thread Programming Environment for the Grid (2005)

Harold Soh Shazia, Harold Soh, Shazia Haque, Weili Liao, Krishna Nadiminti, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid computing has emerged as a viable method for solving computational and data intensive problems, applicable over various domains from business computing to scientific research. However, grid...

An Integration of Global and Enterprise Grid Computing: Gridbus Broker and Xgrid Perspective (2005)

Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Tianchi Ma, Rajkumar Buyya

In this work, we present two perspectives of Grid computing by using two different Grid middleware as examples: an Enterprise Grid using Xgrid and a Global Grid with Gridbus. We also present the...

Cost-based Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications on Global Grids (2005)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

We present an algorithm for scheduling distributed data intensive Bag-of-Task applications on Data Grids that have costs associated with requesting, transferring and processing datasets. We evaluate...

Service Level Agreement based Allocation of Cluster Resources: Handling Penalty to Enhance Utility (2005)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

Jobs submitted into a cluster have varying requirements depending on user-specific needs and expectations. Therefore, in utility-driven cluster computing, cluster Resource Management Systems (RMSs)...

Critical-Path and Priority Based Algorithms for Scheduling Workflows with Parameter Sweep Tasks on Global Grids (2005)

Tianchi Ma, Rajkumar Buyya

Parameter-sweep has been widely adopted in large numbers of scientific applications. Parameter-sweep features need to be incorporated into Grid workflows so as to increase the scale and scope of such...

A Taxonomy of Market-Based Resource Management Systems for Utility-Driven Cluster Computing (2005)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

Model for Market-based Cluster Resource Management System Figure 2 outlines an abstract model for the market-based cluster RMS. The purpose of the abstract model is to identify generic components...

A Case for Cooperative and Incentive-Based Coupling of Distributed (2005)

Clusters Rajiv Ranjan, Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya, Aaron Harwood

Interest in Grid computing has grown significantly over the past five years. Management of distributed cluster resources is a key issue in Grid computing. Central to management of resources is the...

Neuroscience Instrumentation and Distributed Analysis of Brain (2005)

Activity Data Case, Rajkumar Buyya, Susumu Date, Yuko Mizuno-matsumoto, Srikumar Venugopal, David Abramson

The distribution of knowledge (by scientists) and data sources (advanced scientific instruments), and the need of large-scale computational resources for analyzing massive scientific data are two...

A Model for Cooperative Federation of Distributed Clusters (2005)

Rajiv Ranjan Rajkumar, Rajkumar Buyya, Aaron Harwood

Interest in Grid computing has grown significantly over the past five years. Management of distributed cluster resources is a key issue in Grid computing. Central to management of resources is the...

A Deadline and Budget Constrained Scheduling Algorithm for eScience Applications on Data Grids (2005)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

In this paper, we present an algorithm for scheduling of distributed data intensive Bag-of-Task applications on Data Grids that have costs associated with requesting, transferring and processing...

The Australian BioGrid portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Hussein Gibbins, Krishna Nadiminti, Brett Beeson, Rajesh Chhabra, Brian Smith, Rajkumar Buyya

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing (2005)

Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya

With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific...

The Australian BioGrid portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Hussein Gibbins, Krishna Nadiminti, Brett Beeson, Rajesh Chhabra, Brian Smith, Rajkumar Buyya

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, Rajkumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

The Gridbus Grid Service Broker and Scheduler (v.2.2) User Guide”, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS (2005)

Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

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The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community (2005)

Gibbins, Hussein, Nadimiti, Krishna, Beeson, Brett, Chhabra, Rajesh, Smith, Brian, Buyya, Rajkumar

This paper presents the Australian BioGrid Portal that aims to provide the biotechnology sector in Australia with ready access to technologies that enable them to perform drug-lead exploration in an...

Global Grids and Software Toolkits: A Study of Four Grid Middleware Technologies (2004)

Asadzadeh, Parvin, Buyya, Rajkumar, Kei, Chun Ling, Nayar, Deepa, Venugopal, Srikumar

Grid is an infrastructure that involves the integrated and collaborative use of computers, networks, databases and scientific instruments owned and managed by multiple organizations. Grid...

A Grid Service Broker for Scheduling Distributed Data-Oriented Applications on Global Grids (2004)

Venugopal, Srikumar, Buyya, Rajkumar, Winton, Lyle

The next generation of scientific experiments and studies, popularly called as e-Science, is carried out by large collaborations of researchers distributed around the world engaged in analysis of...

The Gridbus Toolkit for Service Oriented Grid and Utility Computing: An Overview and Status Report (2004)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Venugopal, Srikumar

Grids aim at exploiting synergies that result from cooperation of autonomous distributed entities. The synergies that result from grid cooperation include the sharing, exchange, selection, and...

Alchemi: A .NET-based Grid Computing Framework and its Integration into Global Grids (2004)

Luther, Akshay, Buyya, Rajkumar, Ranjan, Rajiv, Venugopal, Srikumar

Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. Software to...

P2P Networks for Content Sharing (2004)

Ding, Choon Hoong, Nutanong, Sarana, Buyya, Rajkumar

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies have been widely used for content sharing, popularly called "file-swapping" networks. This chapter gives a broad overview of content sharing P2P technologies. It...

A New Grid Portal for Managing and Monitoring Application Execution on Global Grids through Multiple Devices (2004)

Kwai Wah Ho, Dr. Rajkumar Buyya

Previous G-Monitor was developed in response to the need for Web-based portals that hide low-level details of accessing Grid services for deployment and execution management of applications which...

Pricing for Utility-driven Resource Management and Allocation in Clusters (2004)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

Users perceive varying levels of utility for each different job completed by the cluster. Therefore, there is a need for existing cluster resource management systems (RMS) to provide a means for the...

A Taxonomy of Market-Based Resource Management Systems for Utility-Driven Cluster Computing (2004)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

In utility-driven cluster computing, cluster systems need to know the specific needs of different users so as to allocate resources according to their needs. They are also vital in supporting...

A Grid Simulation Infrastructure Supporting Advance Reservation (2004)

Anthony Sulistio, Rajkumar Buyya

Advance Reservation (AR) for global grids becomes an important research area as it allows users to gain concurrent access for their applications to be executed in parallel, and guarantees the...

An Economy-based Algorithm for Scheduling Data-Intensive Applications on Global Grids (2004)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

Data Grids have become the de facto platform for the next generation of eScience experiments that will be carried out through large collaborations spread around the world. As the number of entities...

Grid-based Indexing of a Newswire Corpus (2004)

Baden Hughes Srikumar, Baden Hughes, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

In this paper we report experience in the use of computational grids in the domain of natural language processing, particularly in the area of information extraction, to create query indices for...

A Grid Service Broker for Scheduling Distributed Data-Oriented Applications on Global Grids (2004)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Lyle Winton

The next generation of scientific experiments and studies, popularly called as e-Science, is carried out by large collaborations of researchers distributed around the world engaged in analysis of...

GridCrypt: High Performance Symmetric Key Cryptography Using Enterprise Grids (2004)

Agus Setiawan, David Adiutama, Julius Liman, Akshay Luther, Rajkumar Buyya

Today's cryptanalysis on symmetric key cryptography is encouraging the use of larger key sizes and complex algorithms to achieve an unbreakable state. However, this leads an increase in...

Guided Google: A Meta Search Engine and its Implementation Using the Google Distributed Web Services (2004)

Choon Hoong Ding, Rajkumar Buyya

With the ubiquity of the Internet and Web, search engines have been sprouting like mushrooms after a rainfall. However, innovative search engines and guided search capabilities have started appearing...

Grid Economics: 10 Lessons from Finance (2004)

Giorgos Cheliotis Chris, Chris Kenyon, Rajkumar Buyya

Today Grid technology is finding its way out of the academic incubator and into commercial environments. The interest in on-demand utility computing is larger then ever before in the industry and...

The Gridbus Toolkit for Service Oriented Grid and Utility Computing: An Overview and Status Report (2004)

Rajkumar Buyya, Srikumar Venugopal

Grids aim at exploiting synergies that result from cooperation of autonomous distributed entities. The synergies that result from grid cooperation include the sharing, exchange, selection, and...

A Grid Service Broker for Scheduling Distributed Data-Oriented Applications on Global Grids (2004)

Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Lyle Winton

Large communities of researchers distributed around the world are engaged in analyzing huge collections of data generated by scientific instruments and replicated on distributed resources. In such an...

ANovel Architecture for Realizing Grid Workflow using Tuple Spaces (2004)

Jia Yu And, Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya

Grid workflow can be defined as the composition of grid application services which execute on heterogeneous and distributed resources in a well-defined order to accomplish a specific goal....

Libra: A Computational Economy-Based Job Scheduling System For Clusters (2004)

Libra A Computational, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Nausheen Lotia, Rajkumar Buyya

This paper presents a new computational economy driven scheduling system called Libra, which has been designed to support allocation of resources based on the users' quality of service...

A. Lagan et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2004, LNCS 3046, pp. 147--157, 2004. (2004)

Tan Tien Ping, Gian Ch, Chan Huah Yong, Fazilah Haron, Rajkumar Buyya

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing is said to be the next wave of computing after client-server and web-based computing. It provides an opportunity to harness a lot of idle peer-resources such as desktop...

Pricing for Utility-driven Resource Management and Allocation in Clusters (2004)

Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

Users perceive varying levels of utility for each different job completed by the cluster. Therefore, there is a need for existing cluster Resource Management Systems (RMS) to provide a means for the...

GridEmail: A Case for Economically Regulated Internet-based Interpersonal Communications (2003)

Soysa, Manjuka, Buyya, Rajkumar, Nath, Baikunth

Email has emerged as a dominant form of electronic communication between people. Spam is a major problem for email users, with estimates of up to 56% of email falling into that category. Control of...

Gridscape: A Tool for the Creation of Interactive and Dynamic Grid Testbed Web Portals (2003)

Gibbins, Hussein, Buyya, Rajkumar

The notion of grid computing has gained an increasing popularity recently as a realistic solution to many of our large-scale data storage and processing needs. It enables the sharing, selection and...

Guided Google: A Meta Search Engine and its Implementation using the Google Distributed Web Services (2003)

Hoong, Ding Choon, Buyya, Rajkumar

With the advent of the Internet, search engines have begun sprouting like mushrooms after a rainfall. Only in recent years, have developers become more innovative, and came up with guided searching...

Grid Market Directory: A Web Services based Grid Service Publication Directory (2003)

Yu, Jia, Venugopal, Srikumar, Buyya, Rajkumar

As Grids are emerging as the next generation service-oriented computing platforms, they need to support Grid economy that helps in the management of supply and demand for resources and offers an...

G-Monitor: Gridbus web portal for monitoring and steering application execution on global grids (2003)

Placek, Martin, Buyya, Rajkumar

Grids are experiencing a rapid growth in their application and along with this there is a requirement for a portal which is easy to use and scalable. We have responded to this requirement by...

Visual Environment for Rapid Composition of Parameter-Sweep Applications for Distributed Processing on Global Grids (2003)

Burq, Shoib, Melnikoff, Steve, Branson, Kim, Buyya, Rajkumar

Computational Grids are emerging as a platform for next-generation parallel and distributed computing. Large-scale parametric studies and parameter sweep applications find a natural place in the...

The Virtual Laboratory: Enabling Molecular Modelling for Drug Design on the World Wide Grid (2003)

Rajkumar Buyya, Kim Branson, Jon Giddy, David Abramson

Abstract: Computational Grids are emerging as a popular paradigm for solving large-scale compute and data intensive problems in science, engineering, and commerce. However, application composition,...

The Virtual Laboratory: Enabling Molecular Modelling for Drug Design on the World Wide Grid (2003)

Rajkumar Buyya, Kim Branson, Jon Giddy, David Abramson

Abstract: Computational Grids are emerging as a popular paradigm for solving large-scale compute and data intensive problems in science, engineering, and commerce. However, application composition,...

GridEmail: A Case for Economically Regulated Internet-based Interpersonal Communications (2003)

Manjuka Soysa Rajkumar, Rajkumar Buyya, Baikunth Nath

Email has emerged as a dominant form of electronic communication between people. Spam is a major problem for email users, with estimates of up to 56% of email falling into that category [13]. Control...

GridEmail: A Case for Economically Regulated Internet-based Interpersonal Communications (2003)

Manjuka Soysa Rajkumar, Rajkumar Buyya, Baikunth Nath

Email has emerged as a dominant form of electronic communication between people. Spam is a major problem for email users, with estimates of up to 56% of email falling into that category [13]. Control...

G-Monitor: A Web Portal for Monitoring and Steering (2003)

Application Execution On, Martin Placek, Rajkumar Buyya

As Grids are emerging as the next-generation computing platform, the need for Web-based portals that hide low level details of accessing Grid services for deployment and execution management of...

Visual Parameteric Modeler for Rapid Composition of Parameter-Sweep Applications for Processing on Global Grids (2003)

Shoaib Burq, Steve Melnikoff, Kim Branson, Rajkumar Buyya

Grids are emerging as a platform for the next-generation parallel and distributed computing. Large-scale parametric studies and parameter sweep applications find a natural place in the Grid's...

Peer-to-Peer Networks for Content Sharing (2003)

Choon Hoong Ding, Sarana Nutanong, Rajkumar Buyya

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are popularly used as "file-swapping" networks to support distributed content sharing. A number of P2P networks for file sharing have been developed and deployed....

A market-oriented grid directory service for publication and discovery of grid service providers and their services (2003)

Jia Yu, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya

The emergence of Grids as a platform for sharing and aggregation of distributed resources increases the need for mechanisms that allow an efficient management of resources. The Grid economy has been...

Abramson D: The Virtual Laboratory. A Toolset to Enable Distributed Molecular Modeling for Drug Design on the WorldWide Grid. Concurrency Computat: Pract Exper 2003 (2003)

Rajkumar Buyya, Kim Branson, Jon Giddy, David Abramson

Abstract: Computational Grids are emerging as a new paradigm for sharing and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale compute and data intensive problems in...

Gridscape: A Tool for the Creation of Interactive and Dynamic Grid Testbed Web Portals (2003)

Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. The notion of grid computing has gained an increasing popularity recently as a realistic solution to many of our large-scale data storage and processing needs. It enables the sharing,...

Visual modeler for Grid modeling and simulation (GridSim) toolkit. Innovative Solutions for Grid Computing Workshop (2003)

Anthony Sulistio, Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract. The Grid Modeling and Simulation (GridSim) toolkit provides a comprehensive facility for simulation of application scheduling in different Grid computing environments. However, using the...

Libra: An Economy driven Job Scheduling System for Clusters (2002)

Sherwani, Jahanzeb, Ali, Nosheen, Lotia, Nausheen, Hayat, Zahra, Buyya, Rajkumar

Clusters of computers have emerged as mainstream parallel and distributed platforms for high-performance, high-throughput and high-availability computing. To enable effective resource management on...

Economic-based Distributed Resource Management and Scheduling for Grid Computing (2002)

Buyya, Rajkumar

Computational Grids, emerging as an infrastructure for next generation computing, enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale...

GridSim: A Toolkit for the Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Resource Management and Scheduling for Grid Computing (2002)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Murshed, Manzur

Clusters, grids, and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as popular paradigms for next generation parallel and distributed computing. The management of resources and scheduling of applications...

A Deadline and Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimisation Algorithm for Scheduling Task Farming Applications on Global Grids (2002)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Murshed, Manzur

Computational Grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering,...

Gridsim: A toolkit for the modeling and simulation of distributed resource management and scheduling for grid computing (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya, Manzur Murshed

Abstract: Clusters, grids, and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as popular paradigms for next generation parallel and distributed computing. They enable aggregation of distributed resources...

Grids and Grid Technologies for Wide-Area Distributed Computing (2002)

Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya, Domenico Laforenza

Abstract: The last decade has seen a substantial increase in commodity computer and network performance, mainly as a result of faster hardware and more sophisticated software. Nevertheless, there are...

The Virtual Laboratory: A Toolset for Utilising the WorldWide Grid to Design Drugs (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya, Kim Branson, Jon Giddy, David Abramson

Computational Grids [1] enable the sharing, selection and aggregation of distributed resources across multiple organizations for solving large-scale computational and data intensive problems....

Libra: An Economy driven Job Scheduling System for Clusters (2002)

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Nausheen Lotia, Zahra Hayat, Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract: Clusters of computers have emerged as mainstream parallel and distributed platforms for highperformance, high-throughput and high-availability computing. To enable effective resource...

A Deadline and Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling Task Farming Applications on Global Grids (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya, Manzur Murshed, David Abramson

Abstract: Computational Grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale problems in science,...

A Deadline and Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling Task Farming Applications on Global Grids (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya, Manzur Murshed, David Abramson

Abstract: Computational Grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale problems in science,...

Grids and Grid Technologies for Wide-Area Distributed Computing (2002)

Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya, Domenico Laforenza

Abstract: The last decade has seen a substantial increase in commodity computer and network performance, mainly as a result of faster hardware and more sophisticated software. Nevertheless, there are...

Weaving electrical and computational grids: How analogous are they (2002)

Madhu Chetty, Rajkumar Buyya

Inspired by the electrical power grid’s ability to provide a pervasive access to power in a consistent and dependable manner, computer scientists began exploring the design and development of an...

A computational economy for grid computing and its implementation in the Nimrod-G resource broker (2002)

David Abramson, Rajkumar Buyya, Jonathan Giddy

Abstract: Computational Grids, coupling geographically distributed resources such as PCs, workstations, clusters, and scientific instruments, have emerged as a next generation computing platform for...

Economics Paradigm for Resource Management and Scheduling (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy, Heinz Stockinger

Abstract: The accelerated development in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises...

Economic Models for Resource Management and Scheduling (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy, Heinz Stockinger

Abstract: The accelerated development in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises...

A Taxonomy and Survey of Grid Resource Management Systems (2002)

Klaus Krauter, Rajkumar Buyya, Muthucumaru Maheswaran

The resource management system is the central component of network computing systems. There have been many projects focused on network computing that have designed and implemented resource management...

Grids and Grid Technologies for Wide-Area Distributed Computing (2002)

Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya, Domenico Laforenza

This paper aims to present the state-of-the-art of Grid computing and attempts to survey the major international efforts in developing this emerging technology. Copyright # 2002 John Wiley &...

The Virtual Laboratory: A Toolset for Utilising the World-Wide Grid to Design Drugs (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya, Kim Branson, Jon Giddy, David Abramson

this paper, we discuss a layered architecture of technologies and tools for creating the virtual laboratory environment for drug design application. We present the results of scheduling molecular...

GridBank: A Grid Accounting Services Architecture (GASA) for Distributed Systems Sharing (2002)

Alexander Barmouta, Rajkumar Buyya

Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of resources distributed...

A Deadline and Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimisation Algorithm for (2002)

Scheduling Task Farming, Rajkumar Buyya, Manzur Murshed, David Abramson

Computational Grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed resources for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering,...

Economic models for resource management and scheduling in Grid computing (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy, Heinz Stockinger

this paper, we discuss the use of these models for interaction between Grid components to decide resource service value, and the necessary infrastructure to realize each model. In addition to usual...

Libra: An Economy-Driven Job Scheduling System for Clusters (2002)

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Nausheen Lotia, Zahra Hayat, Rajkumar Buyya

Clusters of computers have emerged as mainstream parallel and distributed platforms for high-performance, highthroughput and high-availability computing. To enable effective resource management on...

A computational economy for grid computing and its implementation in the Nimrod-G resource broker (2002)

David Abramson, Rajkumar Buyya, Jonathan Giddy

Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources such as PCs, workstations, clusters, and scientific instruments, have emerged as a next generation computing platform for solving...

A Computational Economy for Grid Computing (2002)

And Its Implementation, David Abramson, Rajkumar Buyya, Jonathan Giddy

Computational Grids that couple geographically distributed resources such as PCs, workstations, clusters, and scientific instruments, have emerged as a next generation computing platform for solving...

A taxonomy and survey of grid resource management systems for distributed computing (2002)

Klaus Krauter, Rajkumar Buyya, Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Abstract – The resource management system is the central component of network computing systems. There have been many projects focused on network computing that have designed and implemented...

Table of Contents (2002)

Rajkumar Buyya

Abstract ………..………………………………………………………………………………………….. x Declaration...

Virtual Laboratory: Enabling On-Demand Drug Design with the World Wide Grid (2001)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Branson, Kim, Giddy, Jon, Abramson, David

Computational Grids are emerging as a popular paradigm for solving large-scale compute and data intensive problems in science, engineering, and commerce. However, application composition, resource...

A Computational Economy for Grid Computing and its Implementation in the Nimrod-G Resource Brok (2001)

Abramson, David, Buyya, Rajkumar, Giddy, Jonathan

Computational Grids, coupling geographically distributed resources such as PCs, workstations, clusters, and scientific instruments, have emerged as a next generation computing platform for solving...

Economic Models for Management of Resources in Grid Computing (2001)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Stockinger, Heinz, Giddy, Jonathan, Abrams, David

The accelerated development in Grid and peer-to-peer computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises (VE) for sharing...

Economic models for management of resources in grid computing (2001)

Rajkumar Buyya, Heinz Stockinger, Jonathan Giddy, David Abramson

The accelerated development in Grid and peer-to-peer computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises (VE) for sharing...

Compute Power Market: Towards a Market-Oriented Grid (2001)

Rajkumar Buyya, Sudharshan Vazhkudai

The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end personal computing...

GridSim: A Toolkit for the Modeling and Simulation of Global Grids (2001)

Manzur Murshed, Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson

Abstract: Clusters, Grids, and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as popular paradigms for next generation parallel and distributed computing. They enable aggregation of distributed resources...

GridSim: A Toolkit for the Modeling and Simulation of Global Grids (2001)

Manzur Murshed, Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson

Abstract: Clusters, Grids, and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as popular paradigms for next generation parallel and distributed computing. They enable aggregation of distributed resources...

Economic Models for Management of Resources in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (2001)

Rajkumar Buyya, Heinz Stockinger, Jonathan Giddy, David Abramson

Abstract: The accelerated development in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises...

Economic Models for Management of Resources in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (2001)

Rajkumar Buyya, Heinz Stockinger, Jonathan Giddy, David Abramson

Abstract: The accelerated development in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises...

Compute Power Market: Towards a Market-Oriented Grid (2001)

Rajkumar Buyya, Sudharshan Vazhkudai

The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end personal computing...

Cluster Computing: A High-Performance Contender (2000)

Baker, Mark, Buyya, Rajkumar, Hyde, Dan

When you first heard people speak of Piles of PCs, the first thing that came to mind may have been a cluttered computer room with processors, monitors, and snarls of cables all around. Collections of...

Nimrod/G: An Architecture of a Resource Management and Scheduling System in a Global Computational Grid (2000)

Buyya, Rajkumar, Abramson, David, Giddy, Jon

The availability of powerful microprocessors and high-speed networks as commodity components has enabled high performance computing on distributed systems (wide-area cluster computing). In this...

Nimrod/G: An architecture for a resource management and scheduling system in a global computational Grid (2000)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy

Abstract- The availability of powerful microprocessors and high-speed networks as commodity components has enabled high performance computing on distributed systems (wide-area cluster computing). In...

Architectural models for resource management in the Grid (2000)

Rajkumar Buyya, Steve Chapin, David Dinucci

Abstract: The concept of coupling geographically distributed (high-end) resources for solving large-scale problems is becoming increasingly popular, forming what is popularly called grid computing....

Nature’s Heuristics for Scheduling Jobs on Computational Grids (2000)

Ajith Abraham, Rajkumar Buyya, Baikunth Nath

Computational Grid (Grid Computing) is a new paradigm that will drive the computing arena in the new millennium. Unification of globally remote and diverse resources, coupled with the increasing...

Nimrod/G: An Architecture for a Resource Management and Scheduling System in a Global Computational Grid (2000)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy

The availability of powerful microprocessors and high-speed networks as commodity components has enabled high performance computing on distributed systems (wide-area cluster computing). In this...

An Evaluation of Economy-based Resource Trading and Scheduling on Computational Power Grids for Parameter Sweep Applications (2000)

Rajkumar Buyya, Jonathan Giddy, David Abramson

: Computational Grids are becoming attractive and promising platforms for solving large-scale (problem solving) applications of multi-institutional interest. However, the management of resources and...

Nature's Heuristics for Scheduling Jobs on Computational Grids (2000)

Ajith Abraham, Rajkumar Buyya, Baikunth Nath

: Computational Grid (Grid Computing) is a new paradigm that will drive the computing arena in the new millennium. Unification of globally remote and diverse resources, coupled with the increasing...

PARMON: A Portable and Scalable Monitoring System for Clusters (2000)

Rajkumar Buyya

Workstation clusters have of late become a cost-effective solution for high performance computing. C-DAC's PARAM OpenFrame is a large cluster of high performance workstations interconnected...

An Economy Driven Resource Management Architecture for Global Computational Power Grids (2000)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy

The growing computational power requirements of grand challenge applications has promoted the need for linking highperformance computational resources distributed across multiple organisations. This...

Compute Power Market: Towards a Market-Oriented Grid (2000)

Rajkumar Buyya Sudharshan, Rajkumar Buyya, Sudharshan Vazhkudai

The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end personal computing...

An Evaluation of Economy-based Resource Trading (2000)

And Scheduling On, Rajkumar Buyya, Jonathan Giddy, David Abramson

Computational Grids are becoming attractive and promising platforms for solving large-scale (problem solving) applications of multi-institutional interest. However, the management of resources and...

An evaluation of economy-based resource trading and scheduling on computational power Grids for parameter sweep applications (2000)

Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy

Abstract: Computational Grids are becoming attractive and promising platforms for solving large-scale (problem solving) applications of multi-institutional interest. However, the management of...

Software–Practice and Experience (2000)

Softw Pract Exper, Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya

A taxonomy of market-based resource management systems for utility-driven cluster computing

Cluster computing: the commodity supercomputer (1999)

Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya

The availability of high-speed networks and increasingly powerful commodity microprocessors is making the usage of clusters, or networks, of computers an appealing vehicle for cost effective parallel...

GARDMON: A Java-based Monitoring Tool for Gardens Non-dedicated Cluster Computing System (1999)

Rajkumar Buyya, Binu Thomas Koshy, Rajesh Mudlapur

: The QUT's Gardens project aims to create a virtual parallel machine out of a network of nondedicated computers (workstations/PCs). These systems are interconnected through low latency and high...

Cluster Computing at a Glance (1999)

Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya

ion Layer Hardware I/O Graphics Protected Subsystems (e.g. POSIX, OS/2) Figure 1.3 Windows NT 4.0 architecture. Packaged with Windows NT are several built-in networking protocols, such as IPX/SPX,...

Economic Models for Management of Resources in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing

Rajkumar Buyya, Heinz Stockinger, Jonathan Giddy, David Abramson, Author One, Author Two, ...

The accelerated development in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises (VE) for...

Architectural Models for Resource Management in the Grid

Rajkumar Buyya, Steve Chapin, David Dinucci

The concept of coupling geographically distributed (high-end) resources for solving large-scale problems is becoming increasingly popular, forming what is popularly called grid computing. The...