Qoscos Grid
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The Qoscos Grid is a quasi-opportunistic supercomputing
Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing
Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing is a computational paradigm for supercomputing on a large number of geographically disperse computers. Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing aims to provide a higher quality of service than opportunistic resource sharing....

 system using grid computing
Grid computing
Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files...

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QosCos Grid acts as middleware
Middleware
Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...

resource management facilities which provide end-users with supercomputer-like performance by connecting many computing clusters together. By using QosCosGrid large-scale computing models in existing programming languages such as Fortran or C can be distributed among multiple computing resources.

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