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To better utilize its vast collection of heterogeneous resources that are geographically distributed across the United States, NASA is constructing a computational grid called the Information Power Grid (IPG). This paper describes various tools and techniques that we are developing to measure and improve the performance of a broad class of NASA applications when run on the IPG. In particular, we are investigating the areas of grid benchmarking, grid monitoring, user-level application scheduling, and decentralized system-level scheduling.
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Biswas, R., Frumkin, M., Smith, W., Van der Wijngaart, R. (2002). Tools and Techniques for Measuring and Improving Grid Performance. In: Das, S.K., Bhattacharya, S. (eds) Distributed Computing. IWDC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2571. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36385-8_5
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