MapReduce offers a flexible programming model for processing and generating large data sets on dedicated resources, where only a small fraction of such resources are every unavaila...
Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, Jeremy S. Archuleta, Wu-c...
Background: Molecular-docking-based virtual screening is an important tool in drug discovery that is used to significantly reduce the number of possible chemical compounds to be i...
Shuxing Zhang, Kamal Kumar, Xiaohui Jiang, Anders ...
Background: There is an increasing number of proteins with known structure but unknown function. Determining their function would have a significant impact on understanding diseas...
The practical realization of managing and executing large scale scientific computations efficiently and reliably is quite challenging. Scientific computations often invo...
Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster, Mihael Hateg...
This paper considers resource allocation algorithms for processing streams of events on computational grids. For example, financial trading applications are executed on large comp...