A non-trivial challenge in high performance, cluster computing is the communication overhead introduced by the cluster interconnect. A common strategy for addressing this challeng...
Anthony Danalis, Aaron Brown, Lori L. Pollock, D. ...
Bioinformatics algorithms such as sequence alignment methods based on profile-HMM (Hidden Markov Model) are popular but CPU-intensive. If large amounts of data are processed, a s...
Heinz Stockinger, Marco Pagni, Lorenzo Cerutti, La...
Modern scientific experiments can generate hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes of data that may furthermore be maintained in large numbers of relatively small fil...
Wantao Liu, Brian Tieman, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian...
: Networks of Workstations (NOW) have become an attractive alternative platform for high performance computing. Due to the commodity nature of workstations and interconnects and du...
Mohammad Banikazemi, Jayanthi Sampathkumar, Sandee...
High performance data grids are increasingly becoming popular platforms to support data-intensive applications. Reducing high energy consumption caused by data grids is a challeng...