Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on parallel evolutionary computing
Dynamic mapping of a class of independent tasks onto heterogeneous computing systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on software support for distributed computing
Condor: a distributed job scheduler
Beowulf cluster computing with Linux
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Performance-Effective and Low-Complexity Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A Framework for Resource Allocation in Grid Computing
MASCOTS '04 Proceedings of the The IEEE Computer Society's 12th Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
ASKALON: a tool set for cluster and Grid computing: Research Articles
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Grid Performance
Scheduling of scientific workflows in the ASKALON grid environment
ACM SIGMOD Record
Cost-Based Scheduling of Scientific Workflow Application on Utility Grids
E-SCIENCE '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Scientific workflow management and the Kepler system: Research Articles
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Workflow in Grid Systems
Improving Traffic Locality in BitTorrent via Biased Neighbor Selection
ICDCS '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Task scheduling strategies for workflow-based applications in grids
CCGRID '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05) - Volume 2 - Volume 02
Peer-to-Peer Based Grid Workflow Runtime Environment of SwinDeW-G
E-SCIENCE '07 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
A throughput maximization strategy for scheduling transaction-intensive workflows on SwinDeW-G
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe2007)
Scheduling parameter sweep workflow in the Grid based on resource competition
Future Generation Computer Systems
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Transaction-intensive grid workflows are attracting more and more attentions with the prosperity of e-business and e-government applications. They are workflows normally with a huge number of relatively simple concurrent instances, such as business transactions, whilst some of which may involve considerable communication overheads. However, there are almost no specific scheduling algorithms which deal with such workflows, and existing scheduling algorithms are not efficient enough for such a scenario if corresponding adjustments are not conducted. To address this problem, we propose a novel Min-Min-Average (MMA) algorithm for efficiently scheduling transaction-intensive grid workflows involving considerable communication overheads. The MMA algorithm is based on the popular Min-Min algorithm but uses a different strategy for transaction-intensive grid workflows with the capability of adapting to the change of network transmission speed automatically. The comparison based on the simulation performed on SwinDeW-G, our peer-to-peer based grid workflow environment, demonstrates that the MMA algorithm can improve the scheduling performance significantly over the original Min-Min algorithm when scheduling transaction-intensive grid workflows with considerable communication overheads involved.