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Consider a multithreaded parallel application running inside a multicore virtual machine context that is itself hosted on a multi-socket multicore physical machine. How should the...
Background: The Ensembl project produces updates to its comparative genomics resources with each of its several releases per year. During each release cycle approximately two week...
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With the new middleware IT technologies such as Web Services and peer-to-peer computing facilities, a Virtual Enterprise can be built easier achieving some problems of interoperabi...