Architecture Papers -- How It Works

• Experiences with Predicting Resource Performance On-line in Computational Grid Settings (pdf), Rich Wolski, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 30, Number 4, pp 41--49, March, 2003.

• The Network Weather Service: A Distributed Resource Performance Forecasting Service for Metacomputing (compressed postscript) Rich Wolski, Neil Spring, and Jim Hayes, Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems,Volume 15, Numbers 5-6, pp. 757-768, October, 1999.

• Dynamically Forecasting Network Performance Using the Network Weather Service (compressed postscript) Rich Wolski, in Journal of Cluster Computing, Volume 1, pp. 119-132, January, 1998.

Other Points of Interest

• Synchronizing Network Probes to avoid Measurement Intrusiveness with the Network Weather Service (compressed postscript) or (PDF), B. Gaidioz, R. Wolski, and B. Tourancheau, Proceedings of 9th IEEE High-performance Distributed Computing Conference, August, 2000, pp. 147-154.

• Using JavaNWS to Compare C and Java TCP-Socket Performance (compressed postscript) or (PDF), C. Krintz and R. Wolski, Journal of Concurrency and Practice and Experience, Volume 13, Number 8-9, pp. 815-839, 2001.

• Predicting the CPU Availability of Time-shared Unix Systems (compressed postscript) Rich Wolski, Neil Spring, and Jim Hayes, Proceedings of 8th IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing Conference (HPDC8), August, 1999.

• Implementing a Performance Forecasting System for Metacomputing: The Network Weather Service (compressed postscript) Rich Wolski, Neil Spring, Chris Peterson, in Proceedings of SC97, November, 1997.