Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
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Scientific workflow tools allow users to specify complex computational experiments and provide a good framework for robust science and engineering. Workflows consist of pipelines ...
David Abramson, Blair Bethwaite, Colin Enticott, S...
An increasing number of science and engineering applications require distributed and parallel computing resources to satisfy user response-time requirements. Distributed science a...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James, Craig J. Patten...
Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the...