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Grid computing is a high performance computing environment to solve large-scale computational demands. Computational grids has emerged as a next generation computing platform which is a collection of heterogeneous computing resources connected by a network across dynamic and geographically dispersed organizations, to form a distributed high performance computing infrastructure. Our work is mainly based on job-grouping approach for fine-grained job scheduling in computational grids. Resources in computational grid are heterogeneous in nature, owned and managed by different organizations with...