Grid workflow can be defined as the composition of grid application services which execute on heterogeneous and distributed resources in a well-defined order to accomplish a speci...
Background: Bioinformatics is confronted with a new data explosion due to the availability of high throughput DNA sequencers. Data storage and analysis becomes a problem on local ...
Angela C. M. Luyf, Barbera D. C. van Schaik, Miche...
Clouds are emerging as an important class of distributed computational resources and are quickly becoming an integral part of production computational infrastructures. An importan...
Hyunjoo Kim, Yaakoub El Khamra, Shantenu Jha, Mani...
The Web Services Resource Framework (WS-RF) and the Web Services Notification (WS-N) specifications are a crucial component of Grid infrastructures. They provide a standardized int...
In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of two mechanisms for fault-tolerance and recovery for complex scientific workflows on computational grids. We present our ...