Cloud computing provides virtual resources so that end-users or organizations can buy computing power as a public utility. Cloud service providers however must strive to ensure good QoS by offering highly available services with dynamically scalable resources. HA-OSCAR is an open source High Availability (HA) solution for HPC/cloud that offers component redundancy, failure detection, and automa...

(1) Background: Extension educators are uniquely positioned to assist with sustainable community-based food environment change, especially related obesity prevention efforts, because they located in almost every county the U.S. strive build resilient communities by improving access and bridging various actors involved systems. Needs assessments of desired educational program resources priority ...

We describe a scheduling technique in which estimated job runtimes and estimated resource availability are used to efficiently distribute workloads across a homogeneous grid of resources with variable availability. The objective is to increase efficiency by minimizing job failure caused by resources becoming unavailable. Optimal scheduling will be accomplished by mapping jobs onto resources wit...

BACKGROUND Poisoning exposures continue to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The lack of facilities, treatment resources, and antidotes in hospitals may affect the treatments provided and outcomes. This study aimed to determine the availability of gastrointestinal (GI) decontamination, stabilisation, elimination enhancement resources, and antidotes for the management ...

In a volunteer-based grid computing environment, one big challenge for effective job allocation is resource availability. As resources in this environment are volatile and may become frequently unavailable, matching guest jobs to suitable resources is very important. To improve scheduling performance in such an unreliable computing environment, especially in terms of avoiding job completion fai...

As businesses are increasingly relying on the cloud to host their services, cloud providers are striving to offer guaranteed and highlyavailable resources. To achieve this goal, recent proposals have advocated to offer both computing and networking resources in the form of Virtual Data Centers (VDCs). Subsequently, several attempts have been made to improve the availability of VDCs through reli...