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Distributed and Parallel Systems

In Focus: Desktop Grid Computing

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Editors:
  1. Péter Kacsuk

    1. Computer & Automation Research Institute, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary

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  2. Róbert Lovas

    1. Computer & Automation Research Institute, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary

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  3. Zsolt Németh

    1. Computer & Automation Research Institute, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary

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  • Includes recent advances of scalability, fault-tolerance and security in desktop grid systems

  • Investigates desktop grids, volunteer computing systems and large-scale computing applications

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Desktop Grids

    1. Enabling Java applications for BOINC with DC-API

      • Attila Csaba Marosi, Gábor Gombás, Zoltán Balaton, Péter Kacsuk
      Pages 3-12

    2. Bridging the Data Management Gap Between Service and Desktop Grids

      • Ian Kelley, Ian Taylor
      Pages 13-26

    3. Utilizing the EGEE Infrastructure for Desktop Grids

      • Zoltán Farkas, Péter Kacsuk, Manuel Rubio del Solar
      Pages 27-35

    4. Integrating Condor Desktop Clusters with Grid

      • Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Konstantinos Margaritis
      Pages 37-42

    5. Prediction of the Jobs Execution on the Community Grid with Added Network Latency

      • Jakub Jurkiewicz, Krzysztof Nowinski, Piotr Bała
      Pages 43-48

  3. Grid Applications

    1. The Porting of a Medical Grid Application from Globus 4 to the gLite Middleware

      • Károly Bósa, Wolfgang Schreiner
      Pages 51-61

    2. Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change Data Grid

      • Sandro Fiore, Salvatore Vadacca, Alessandro Negro, Giovanni Aloisio
      Pages 63-76

    3. Towards a GRID-Based Digital Library Management System

      • Gheorghe Sebestyén-Pál, Doina Banciu, Tünde Bálint, Bogdan Moscaiuc, Ágnes Sebestyén-Pál
      Pages 77-90

  4. Grid Resource Management and Scheduling

    1. Fair Execution Time Estimation Scheduling in Computational Grids

      • Eleni Dafouli, Panagiotis Kokkinos, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos
      Pages 93-104

    2. Multiprocessor Task Scheduling using a new Prioritizing Genetic Algorithm based on number of Task Children

      • Marjan Abdeyazdan, Amir Masoud Rahmani
      Pages 105-114

    3. A Framework for Fair and Reliable Resource Sharing in Distributed Systems

      • Tarek Helmy, Irfan Ahmad, Aleem K. Alvi
      Pages 115-128

    4. An Agent Based Architecture for DAG Scheduling

      • Catalin Leordeanu, Florin Pop, Corina Stratan, Valentin Cristea
      Pages 129-139

  5. Grid Programming Environments

    1. Workflows in a secure environment

      • Norbert Podhorszki, Scott Klasky
      Pages 143-153

    2. High-level User Interface for Accessing Database Resources on the Grid

      • Tamas Kiss, Tamas Kukla
      Pages 155-163

  6. Miscellaneous Grid-related Issues

    1. A supporting infrastructure for evaluating QoS-specific activities in SOA-based Grids

      • Ignacio Blanquer, Vicente Hernández, Damià Segrelles, Erik Torres
      Pages 167-178

    2. Checkpointing of Parallel Applications in a Grid Environment

      • Kreeteeraj Sajadah, Gabor Terstyansky, Stephen C. Winter, Peter Kacsuk
      Pages 179-187

    3. The Grid Data Source Engine Batch Query System

      • Giuliano Taffoni, Edgardo Ambrosi, Claudio Vuerli, Fabio Pasian
      Pages 189-194

    4. Reputation-Policy Trust Model for Grid Resource Selection

      • Yonatan Zetuny, Gabor Terstyanszky, Stephen Winter, Peter Kacsuk
      Pages 195-206

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 207-207
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About this book

DAPSYS (International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems) is an international biannual conference series dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing. DAPSYS 2008, the 7th International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems was held in September 2008 in Hungary.

Distributed and Parallel Systems: Desktop Grid Computing, based on DAPSYS 2008, presents original research, novel concepts and methods, and outstanding results. Contributors investigate parallel and distributed techniques, algorithms, models and applications; present innovative software tools, environments and middleware; focus on various aspects of grid computing; and introduce novel methods for development, deployment, testing and evaluation. This volume features a special focus on desktop grid computing as well.

Designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry, this book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

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"This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems DAPSYS 2008, with a focus on grid computing. … The papers can be independently read and no prerequisites are required. … The results are nicely illustrated with graphs and detailed descriptions. … The papers in the book are very well balanced, with the right amount of mathematical models, experimental analysis, and real-world applications. The book can be used as a reference for academics and industry researchers." (Naga Narayanaswamy, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Computer & Automation Research Institute, MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter Kacsuk, Róbert Lovas, Zsolt Németh

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