Commodity computer clusters are often composed of hundreds of computing nodes. These generally off-the-shelf systems are not designed for high reliability. Node failures therefore...
In this paper we analyze the I/O access patterns of a widely-used biological sequence search tool and implement two variations that employ parallel-I/O for data access based on PV...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, David R. Swanson
The communication mechanism used by the biological cells of higher animals is an integral part of an organisms ability to tolerate cell deficiency or loss. The massive redundancy ...
In this paper we study a fault tolerant model for Grid environments based on the task replication concept. The basic idea is to produce and submit to the Grid multiple replicas of ...
In this paper, we present a comprehensive study on the threats towards the coordination services for Web services business activities and explore the most optimal solution to miti...