Background: The most common application for the next-generation sequencing technologies is resequencing, where short reads from the genome of an individual are aligned to a refere...
Aakrosh Ratan, Yu Zhang, Vanessa M. Hayes, Stephan...
Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
This paper addresses the problem of fine-grained data replication in large distributed systems, such as the Internet, so as to minimize the user access delays. With fine-grained d...
Heterogeneous computing (HC) environments composed of interconnected machines with varied computational capabilities are well suited to meet the computational demands of large, di...
Tracy D. Braun, Howard Jay Siegel, Anthony A. Maci...
Abstract— Large scale distributed computing infrastructure captures the use of high number of nodes, poor communication performance and continously varying resources that are not...