This paper examines the application of Tornado Codes, a class of low density parity check (LDPC) erasure codes, to archival storage systems based on massive arrays of idle disks (...
This paper discusses the process of building an environment where large-scale, complex, scientific analysis can be scheduled onto a heterogeneous collection of computational and s...
Ewa Deelman, Scott Callaghan, Edward Field, Hunter...
Many areas of science currently use computing resources as a important part of their research, and many research groups adopt cluster architecture to use them efficiently and mana...
Hyuck Han, Jai Wug Kim, Jongpil Lee, Youngjin Yu, ...
Execution of MPI applications on Clusters and Grid deployments suffers from node and network failure that motivates the use of fault tolerant MPI implementations. Two category tec...
Global public computing platforms, such as PlanetLab, grid computing systems, and XenoServers, require facilities for managing trust to allow their participants to interact effect...