The rapid increase in network bandwidth from mega bits per second to giga bits per second and potentially to tera bits per second, is making it increasingly difficult to carry out...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
Background: Mass spectrometry is an essential analytical technique for high-throughput analysis in proteomics and metabolomics. The development of new separation techniques, preci...
: The need for processing biological information is rapidly growing, owing to the masses of new information in digital form being produced at this time. Old methodologies for proce...
Efficiently managing storage is important for virtualized computing environments. Its importance is magnified by developments such as cloud computing which consolidate many thousa...