Distributed and Parallel Systems In Focus: Desktop Grid Computing

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 7^th 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.

Desktop Grids.- Enabling Java applications for BOINC with DC-API.- Bridging the Data Management Gap Between Service and Desktop Grids.- Utilizing the EGEE Infrastructure for Desktop Grids.- Integrating Condor Desktop Clusters with Grid.- Prediction of the Jobs Execution on the Community Grid with Added Network Latency.- Grid Applications.- The Porting of a Medical Grid Application from Globus 4 to the gLite Middleware.- Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change Data Grid.- Towards a GRID-Based Digital Library Management System.- Grid Resource Management and Scheduling.- Fair Execution Time Estimation Scheduling in Computational Grids.- Multiprocessor Task Scheduling using a new Prioritizing Genetic Algorithm based on number of Task Children.- A Framework for Fair and Reliable Resource Sharing in Distributed Systems.- An Agent Based Architecture for DAG Scheduling.- Grid Programming Environments.- Workflows in a secure environment.- High-level User Interface for Accessing Database Resources on the Grid.- Miscellaneous Grid-related Issues.- A supporting infrastructure for evaluating QoS-specific activities in SOA-based Grids.- Checkpointing of Parallel Applications in a Grid Environment.- The Grid Data Source Engine Batch Query System.- Reputation-Policy Trust Model for Grid Resource Selection.