Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Abstract. As data volumes processed by large-scale distributed dataintensive applications grow at high-speed, an increasing I/O pressure is put on the underlying storage service, w...
Background: BLAST is a widely used genetic research tool for analysis of similarity between nucleotide and protein sequences. This paper presents a software application entitled &...
The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...
The development of High-Performance Computing (HPC) programs is crucial to progress in many fields of scientific endeavor. We have run initial studies of the productivity of HPC d...