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Currently, many grid applications are developed as job flows that are composed of multiple jobs. The execution of job flows requires the support of a job flow manager and a job scheduler. Due to the long running nature of job flows, the support for fault tolerance and recovery policies is especially important. This support is inherently complicated due to the sequencing and dependency of jobs w...

In this paper we study distributed job scheduling in grid environments when each job is a DL application. The scheduling goal is to minimize the average steady-state job turnaround time. In this context, we identify in which regimes classes of scheduling strategies are efficient, namely for which platforms and which communication to computation ratios. We also quantify what level of global info...

This paper proposes two models for predicting the completion time of jobs in a service Grid. The single service model predicts the completion time of a job in a Grid that provides only one type of service. The multiple services model predicts the completion time of a job that runs in a Grid which offers multiple types of services. We have developed two algorithms that use the predictive models ...

Grid computing has become one of the most important research topics that appeared in the field of computing in the last years. Simultaneously, we have noticed the growing popularity of new Web-based technologies which allow us to create application-oriented Grid middleware services providing capabilities required for dynamic resource and job management, monitoring, security, etc. Consequently, ...

Many companies are increasingly usingMapReduce for efficient large scale data processing such as personalized advertising, spam detection, and different data mining tasks. Cloud computing offers an attractive option for businesses to rent a suitable size Hadoop cluster, consume resources as a service, and pay only for resources that were utilized. One of the open questions in such environments ...