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Large-Scale Scientific Computing (LSSC 2001)

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Global Computing harvest the idle time ofIn ternet connected computers to run very large distributed applications. The unprecedented scale ofthe GCS paradigm requires to revisit the basic issues of distributed systems: performance models, security, fault-tolerance and scalability. The first parts ofthis paper review recent work in Global Computing, with particular interest in Peer-to-Peer systems. In the last section, we present XtremWeb, the Global Computing System we are currently developing.

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    C. Germain, G. Fedak, V. Néri & F. Cappello

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  1. Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad G. Bontchev, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Svetozar Margenov

  2. DTU, UNI•C, Danish IT Centre for Education and Research, Bldg. 304, 2800, Lyngby, Denmark

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  3. University of Rousse, Studentska 8, 7017, Rousse, Bulgaria

    Plamen Yalamov

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Germain, C., Fedak, G., Néri, V., Cappello, F. (2001). Global Computing Systems. In: Margenov, S., Waśniewski, J., Yalamov, P. (eds) Large-Scale Scientific Computing. LSSC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45346-6_22

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