Services like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk have opened the door for exploration of processes that outsource computation to humans. These human computation processes hold tremendous ...
Due to the ever-widening performance gap between processors and disks, I/O operations tend to become the major performance bottleneck of data-intensive applications on modern clus...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, Dan Feng, David ...
— Large Clusters, high availability clusters and Grid deployments often suffer from network, node or operating system faults and thus require the use of fault tolerant programmin...
Recognition of a protein’s fold provides valuable information about its function. While many sequence-based homology prediction methods exist, an important challenge remains: tw...