Although grid computing offers great potential for executing large-scale bioinformatics applications, practical deployment is constrained by legacy interfaces. Most widely deployed...
When designing SAMGrid, a project for distributing high-energy physics computations on a grid, we discovered that it was challenging to decide where to place user's jobs. Job...
A. Baranovski, Gabriele Garzoglio, Igor Terekhov, ...
Existing data grid scheduling systems handle huge data I/O via replica location services coupled with simple staging, decoupled from scheduling of computing tasks. However, when th...
Parallel IO (PIO) support for larger scale computing is becoming more important as application developers better understand its importance in reducing overall execution time by avo...
Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Michael M. Resch, J...
Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the num...