A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
Load balancing is a key concern when developing parallel and distributed computing applications. The emergence of computational grids extends this problem, where issues of cross-d...
Junwei Cao, Daniel P. Spooner, Stephen A. Jarvis, ...
Executing parallel applications across distributed networks introduces the problem of fault tolerance. A viable solution for fault tolerance must keep overhead manageable and not c...
Previous studies of application usage show that the performance of collective communications are critical for high-performance computing and are often overlooked when compared to ...
Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Thara Angskun, George Bos...
Background: In the post-genomic era, correct gene prediction has become one of the biggest challenges in genome annotation. Improved promoter prediction methods can be one step to...