Large scale bioinformatics experiments are usually composed by a set of data flows generated by a chain of activities (programs or services) that may be modeled as scientific work...
As Grids become increasingly relied upon as critical infrastructure, it is imperative to ensure the highly-available and secure day-to-day operation of the Grid infrastructure. The...
Jonathan C. Rowanhill, Glenn S. Wasson, Zach Hill,...
High performance computers currently under construction, such as IBM’s Blue Gene/L, consisting of large numbers (64K) of low cost processing elements with relatively small local...
Ed Upchurch, Paul L. Springer, Maciej Brodowicz, S...
Thread migration/checkpointing is becoming indispensable for load balancing and fault tolerance in high performance computing applications, and its success depends on the migration...
We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...