The Internet and the Grid are changing the face of high performance computing. Rather than tightly-coupled SPMD-style components running in a single cluster, on a parallel machine...
Idle desktops have been successfully used to run sequential and master-slave task parallel codes on a large scale in the context of volunteer computing. However, execution of messa...
GridFTP, designed by using the Globus XIO framework, is one of the most popular methods for performing data transfers in the Grid environment. But the performance of GridFTP in WA...
Hari Subramoni, Ping Lai, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Dha...
Background: There is an increasing demand to assemble and align large-scale biological sequence data sets. The commonly used multiple sequence alignment programs are still limited...
A recent trend in modern high performance computing (HPC) system architectures employs “lean” compute nodes running a lightweight operating system (OS). Certain parts of the OS...