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  Cloud computing for science and engineering
Foster I., Gannon D., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017. 392 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262037-24-2)

Clouds have been around for some time and are often touted as expensive and complex systems meant to solve problems specific to Web companies with global reach. Foster and Gannon dispel this myth through an elegantly crafted tour of ev...
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Feb 1 2018  
  Big data and social science: a practical guide to methods and tools
Foster I., Ghani R., Jarmin R., Kreuter F., Lane J., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2016. 376 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-498751-40-7)

The increasing availability of data permeates a broad range of applications. It provides the scientific community with unprecedented possibilities to carry out research and seek answers to questions that would have been difficult to st...
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May 9 2017  
  Globus XIO pipe open driver: enabling GridFTP to leverage standard Unix tools
Kettimuthu R., Link S., Bresnahan J., Link M., Foster I.  TG 2011 (Proceedings of the 2011 TeraGrid Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery, Salt Lake City, UT, Jul 18-21, 2011) 1-7, 2011.  Type: Proceedings

The GridFTP file-transfer protocol is now able to use the Globus XIO pipe-open driver so that standard Unix tools can be invoked for tasks like on-the-fly tar. This capability can be used to address the firewall and performance issues ...
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Oct 25 2011  
  Sourcebook of parallel computing
Dongarra J., Foster I., Fox G., Gropp W., Kennedy K., Torczon L., White A. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2003.  Type: Divisible Book

High performance computing (HPC), particularly parallel supercomputing, promises to provide revolutionary speed and capacity for our most challenging scientific and engineering problems. In practice, developing portable, efficient appl...
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May 20 2004  
  Scheduling in the grid application development software project
Dail H., Sievert O., Berman F., Casanova H., YarKhan A., Vadhiyar S., Dongarra J., Liu C., Yang L., Angulo D., Foster I. In Grid resource management. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.  Type: Book Chapter

In recent years, grid computing has been in the forefront of distributed computing research. However, developing grid applications remains a great challenge, as it is both a complex and laborious task....
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May 7 2004  

 
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