THISARTICLE CONSIDERS JOB RoTATIoN-the systematic movement of employees from one job to another-as one of the many tools within the organizational development tool kit. There is a brief consideration of useful print and Internet literature on the subject as well as a discussion of the pros and cons ofjob rotation. The application ofjob rotation methods in Ryerson University Library, a small aca...

UWAgents is a Java-based mobile agent system optimized for implementing grid computing infrastructure. Unlike most mobile agent systems, which are used only for job deployment and result collection in grid computing, UWAgents addresses specific requirements for coordinating the entire execution of a parallel and distributed computing application. These includes allocation of process identifiers...

In this work, we evaluate the benefits of using Grids with multiple batch systems to improve the performance of multi-component and parameter sweep parallel applications by reduction in queue waiting times. Using different job traces of different loads, job distributions and queue waiting times corresponding to three different queuing policies (FCFS, conservative and EASY backfilling), we condu...

There exists today a number of web-based portals and Grid middlewares that support the submission of jobs to Grid resources. A majority of these portals are tightly coupled with the underlying middleware, and rarely provide user interfaces customized to the end-user applications. The Lunarc Application Portal is a Grid portal that supports the development of customized user interfaces for Grid ...