Since its inception nearly a half century ago, CHARMM has been playing a central role in
computational biochemistry and biophysics. Commensurate with the developments in …

Cloud Computing has taken commercial computing by storm. However, adoption of cloud
computing platforms and services by the scientific community is in its infancy as the …

This paper introduces a new visualization method, the arc diagram, which is capable of
representing complex patterns of repetition in string data. Arc diagrams improve over …

" Volunteer computing" uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as
a source of computing power and storage. This paper studies the potential capacity of …

MapReduce offers an ease-of-use programming paradigm for processing large data sets,
making it an attractive model for distributed volunteer computing systems. However, unlike …

With the increasing presence, scale, and complexity of distributed systems, resource failures
are becoming an important and practical topic of computer science research. While …

Currently deployed grids gather together thousands of computational and storage resources
for the benefit of a large community of scientists. However, the large scale, the wide …

Desktop grids are popular platforms for high throughput applications, but due their inherent
resource volatility it is difficult to exploit them for applications that require rapid turnaround …

Desktop Grid has recently received the strong attraction for executing high throughput
applications as CPU, storage and network capacities improve and become cheaper …

Desktop grids, which use the idle cycles of many desktop PCs, are one of the largest
distributed systems in the world. Despite the popularity and success of many desktop grid …