This approach gives us an online strategy provably competitive with the optimal offline algorithm in the maximum usage of each resource. No other known method offers any competitive guarantee on more than one resource. Metacomputing environments are not homogeneous. In some environments, the scheduler has a great deal of information about submitted jobs. In other cases, it has very little.
Some systems can migrate jobs without interrupting their execution.
The Java Market prototype is a metacomputer built atop Java and web technologies, able to integrate any consenting Internet-connected machine. The Frugal System transforms any Jini network into a metacomputer. A Low Latency, High Throughput Web Service Using Internet-wide Replicati on. The explosion of the content on the World Wide Web has created a situation where most Internet traffic is Web related. At the same time, practically all of the popular Web sites are still served from single locations.