Cloud computing offers new approaches for scientific computing that leverage the major commercial hardware and software investment in this area. Closely coupled applications are s...
A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
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Efficient data management is a key component in achieving good performance for scientific workflows in distributed environments. Workflow applications typically communicate data be...
Rapid growth of the demand for computational power by scientific, business and web-applications has led to the creation of large-scale data centers consuming enormous amounts of el...
BPEL is the de facto standard for business process modeling in today's enterprises and is a promising candidate for the integration of business and scientific applications tha...