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RSS grid aDistributed Parallel Resource Co-Allocation With Load Balancing in Grid Computing
White Paper Instead of balancing the load in grid by process migration, or by moving an entire process to a less loaded node, an attempt is made to balance load by splitting up processes into separated jobs and then balance them to nodes. [10 Jul 2008]
Source Code Transformations Strategies to Load-Balance Grid Applications
White Paper This paper presents load-balancing strategies to improve the performances of parallel MPI applications running in a Grid environment. Experimental results confirm that such source code transformations can improve Grid application performances. [10 Jul 2008]
A Performance Study of Diffusive Vs. Remapped Load-Balancing Schemes
White Paper For a large class of irregular grid applications, the computational structure of the problem changes in an incremental fashion from one phase of the computation to another. The second type of scheme use a multilevel diffusion repartitioner. [10 Jul 2008]
A Collaborative Approach to Stochastic Load Balancing With Networked Queues of Autonomous Service Clusters
White Paper Load balancing has been an increasingly important issue for handling computational intensive tasks in a distributed system such as in Grid and cluster computing. In such systems, multiple server instances are installed for handling requests from... [10 Jul 2008]
GNET-1: Gigabit Ethernet Network Testbed
White Paper GNET-1 is a powerful tool for developing network-aware grid software. GNET-1 is a fully programmable network testbed. It is also a network monitoring and traffic-shaping tool that provides high-performance communication over wide area networks. [10 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing for Spatial-Grid-Based Parallel Numeric Simulations on Clusters of SMPs
White Paper This paper presents a method of mapping spatial grid nodes to processors that combines two load balancing methodologies, graph partitioning and graph matching, to achieve maximum parallel efficiency on SMP clusters. [10 Jul 2008]
Usefulness of Virtual Private Networks for Mini-Grid Environments Demonstrated by Parallel Cellular Automata Simulation
White Paper This paper discusses the coupling of several cluster computers using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to form a "Mini-Grid". The simulation of a technical system is an invaluable step in its design process. [10 Jul 2008]
Messor: Load-Balancing Through a Swarm of Autonomous Agents
White Paper A novel P2P grid computing system has been designed using the Messor algorithm, allowing arbitrary users to initiate computational tasks. Developing applications that can cope with these characteristics requires a paradigm shift that puts... [10 Jul 2008]
Dynamic Load Balancing Strategy for Grid Computing
White Paper This paper proposes a layered algorithm which achieves dynamic load balancing in grid computing. Workload and resource management are two essential functions provided at the service level of the grid software infrastructure. [10 Jul 2008]
The Promise of Load Balancing the Parameterization of Moist Convection Using a Model Data Load Index
White Paper The marker for moist convection correlates directly to the amount of processing time per model grid cell and can therefore be used to effect a load balance. Load imbalances increase the overall time to completion of a model run and should be... [10 Jul 2008]
Traffic-Based Load Balance for Scalable Network Emulation
White Paper Load balance is critical to achieving scalability for large network emulation studies, which are of compelling interest for emerging Grid, Peer to Peer, and other distributed applications and middleware. [10 Jul 2008]
Decentralized Dynamic Load Balancing: The Particles Approach
White Paper Simulations for multiprogrammed hypercube and 2D-grid topologies confirmed the usefulness and suggest superiority of this more general approach to other decentralized algorithms for the environment considered. [10 Jul 2008]
A Refinement-Tree Based Partitioning Method for Dynamic Load Balancing With Adaptively Refined Grids
White Paper The partitioning of an adaptive grid for distribution over parallel processors is considered in the context of adaptive multilevel methods for solving partial differential equations. A partitioning method based on the refinement-tree is presented. [10 Jul 2008]
Rerouting Grid Applications Across Firewalls
White Paper The Grid refers to "A distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science and engineering". Grid applications require advanced computations through distributed processing, with an explicit focus on supporting Virtual Organizations (VOs). [09 Jul 2008]
Adaptive Firewalls for Grid Computing
White Paper This paper proposes a secure and dynamic mechanism to adaptively control the firewall for Grid computing. Grid technology is getting more and more popular now. One of the challenges to deploy Grid applications into the existing environment is to... [08 Jul 2008]
