Bioinformaticists use the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) to characterize an unknown sequence by comparing it against a database of known sequences, thus detecting evolu...
Most space-sharing parallel computers presently operated by high-performance computing centers use batch-queuing systems to manage processor allocation. Because these machines are...
— This paper describes WOW, a distributed system that combines virtual machine, overlay networking and peerto-peer techniques to create scalable wide-area networks of virtual wor...
Arijit Ganguly, Abhishek Agrawal, P. Oscar Boykin,...
Abstract— The execution environments For scientific applications have evolved significantly over the years. Vector and parallel architectures have provided significantly faste...
Widespread adaptation of shared memory programming for High Performance Computing has been inhibited by a lack of standardization and the resulting portability problems between pl...