** We would like to thank the following persons for their assistance with providing client nodes to run the experiments from.


* Sushil Prasad (Georgia State University, USA)
* Kenneth Chiu (SUNY Binghamton, USA)
* Chris Davison and Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California-Irvine, USA)
* Konrad Malkowski and Padma Raghavan (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
* Valeria Cardellini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
* Athena Vakali and Konstantinos Stamos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
* Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
* Carlo Mastroianni (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
* Paul Malecot (University of Paris-Sud, France)
* Gilles Fedak, Eddy Caron, and Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, France)
* Miroslaw Czyrnek (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland)
* William Voorsluys (University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Christoph Reich and Martin Kramer (Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany)
* Agustin Caminero (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
* Maria Perez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
* Ignacio Llorente and José Luis Vázquez-Poletti (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
* Yasmin Rios (Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Mexico)
* Francisco Brasileiro (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)
* Vinod Rebello (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
* Serena Coetzee (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
* Kyong Hoon Kim (Gyeongsang National University, South Korea)
* Norihiko Yoshida (Saitama University, Japan)
* Akiko Nakaniwa (Osaka Sangyo University, Japan)
* Li Lin (Beihang University, China)
* Cho-Li Wang and Roy Ho (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
* Satish Vadhiyar (Indian Institute of Science, India)