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BMCBI
2007
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15 years 4 months ago
BIRCH: A user-oriented, locally-customizable, bioinformatics system
Background: Molecular biologists need sophisticated analytical tools which often demand extensive computational resources. While finding, installing, and using these tools can be ...
Brian Fristensky
CORR
2002
Springer
188views Education» more  CORR 2002»
15 years 4 months ago
GridBank: A Grid Accounting Services Architecture (GASA) for Distributed Systems Sharing and Integration
Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of re...
Alexander Barmouta, Rajkumar Buyya
SIGOPSE
1996
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
How to scale transactional storage systems
Applications of the future will need to support large numbers of clients and will require scalable storage systems that allow state to be shared reliably. Recent research in distr...
Liuba Shrira, Barbara Liskov, Miguel Castro, Atul ...
ICECCS
1997
IEEE
99views Hardware» more  ICECCS 1997»
15 years 8 months ago
The Butterfly Methodology : A Gateway-free Approach for Migrating Legacy Information Systems
The problems posed by mission-critical legacy systems - e.g., brittleness, inflexibility, isolation, non-extensibility, lack of openness - are well known, but practical solutions ...
Bing Wu, Deirdre Lawless, Jesus Bisbal, Ray Richar...
SOSP
1997
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
HAC: Hybrid Adaptive Caching for Distributed Storage Systems
This paper presents HAC, a novel technique for managing the client cache in a distributed, persistent object storage system. HAC is a hybrid between page and object caching that c...
Miguel Castro, Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C...