Distributed Computing

What are the prevailing techniques available for dividing a program into processes? (eg. like PVM)

I want to divide a single program into processes which can then be sent to multiple machines for processing, in a LAN environment. Any help or links will be appreciated.

08 August 2013 3,031 14 View

What are the prevailing techniques available for dividing a program into processes? (eg. like PVM)

I want to divide a single program into processes which can then be sent to multiple machines for processing, in a LAN environment. Any help or links will be appreciated.

08 August 2013 2,788 13 View

What are the active areas of academic research in Hadoop?

I was thinking research in Hadoop is actively pursued by the "BIG" cloud companies, but the academia is lagging behind may be because of the infrastructure for testing the implementations..

25 July 2013 1,277 3 View

Suggestions for parallel processing and distributed computing forums for research related discussions?

I have several research related questions that require assistance from other researchers out there.

06 June 2013 5,876 2 View

Is there any adaptation scheme for randomly updating control parameters of distributed differential evolution algorithms?

Randomness can be exploited to update control parameters (F and CR) into adaptive DE algorithms. There are several instances for sequential DE algorithms but so few examples in the...

05 May 2013 8,407 9 View

What is your opinion on the runtime of the GG algorithm in the attached paper using java custom simulation program with 50 nodes and 1000 objects?

Any suggestions will be appreciated

05 May 2013 3,975 0 View

Can anyone explain the concept of data grid in Grid Grain and Hadoop?

Like how does the data is stored in different systems in grid environment.

16 April 2013 992 1 View

Can anyone explain the concept of data grid in Grid Grain and Hadoop?

Like how does the data is stored in different systems in grid environment.

04 April 2013 9,089 1 View

What computing power do you use in your research? Does your group own computers, or do you use public resources?

Research tasks require computing power, from PCs to supercomputers. What do you use in your work: (a) my own PC/workstation is sufficient (b) my group owns a computing facility (cluster, farm,...

04 April 2013 1,293 5 View

What does the future of Cloud Computing hold for a mere Cloud consumer?

The future of Cloud computing is that "we are yet to see high and cheap energy efficient systems". What does this mean to a mere cloud user or customer given that currently a few cloud providers'...

28 March 2013 1,128 2 View

Distributed computing solution for hardware virtualization

I am looking for a free solution for slaves-master-clients type distributed computing. More precisely, I have 30 PCs (identical configurations) that I’d like to put into a grid of slaves that...

12 March 2013 2,355 11 View

Reduction of computation time of an operation.

My question is quite simple. I am implementing a greedy algorithm technique over the coefficients of a matrix and selecting the best coefficient according to some criteria. The matrix size is...

06 March 2013 4,685 11 View

What does the future of Cloud Computing hold for a mere Cloud consumer?

The future of Cloud computing is that "we are yet to see high and cheap energy efficient systems". What does this mean to a mere cloud user or customer given that currently a few cloud providers'...

03 March 2013 9,337 3 View

To your opinion, what kind of applications can take advantage of the Peer-to-Peer technology?

I mean applications that have nothing to do with the well-known file sharing ones (Emule, Bit-Torrent, etc...). Is there an existing one (or more than one) that is/are outstanding?

03 March 2013 3,792 4 View

Distributed computing solution for hardware virtualization

I am looking for a free solution for slaves-master-clients type distributed computing. More precisely, I have 30 PCs (identical configurations) that I’d like to put into a grid of slaves that...

03 March 2013 1,019 12 View

How can distributed computing eliminate the need for +900 multiple listing services in the US?

Today, MLSs are coupled to their localized geography. This deficiency creates duplicate listings posted to multiple MLSs by agents attempting to increase marketing awareness. These same agents...

12 December 2012 7,262 0 View

Do you thing Peer-to-Peer will always be considered as a synonym of piracy by the industry?

At this time, Peer-to-Peer has always be considered as a synonym of piracy by the industry. Do you think this can change in a near future?

12 December 2012 1,781 12 View

How to distribute tasks among multiple hosts at different locations?

Suppose I have a big project and I want to distribute modules to different partners and then recollect it again, how can I do it? Similarly as what BOINC is doing. I don't want to use any tool or...

11 November 2012 6,559 9 View

Can we really develop an on demand computational service market?

There is an increasing number of cloud service providers, which are starting to provide cloud computing services forming a competition market.

22 October 2012 8,261 8 View

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Only by XOR and Shift operation can complete the security...!

In bigdata and cloud based environments applies symmetric based cryptos using XOR  and shift operation. Is it suffice enough or we need any hybrid approach.

01 January 1970 6,669 3 View

I am searching for real time simulator for multiprocessor scheduling algorithms

I'm looking for a simulator for real-time multiprocessor systems to build and test my own schedulers. The simulator should support resource sharing and provide a GUI. Thanks

01 January 1970 5,867 7 View