Data streaming applications bring new challenges to resource management and scheduling for grid computing. Since real-time data streaming is required as data processing is going on, integrated grid resource management becomes essential among processing, storage and networking resources. Traditional scheduling approaches may not be sufficient for such applications, since usually only one aspect ...

We have witnessed a rapid growth in the field of a new nanoporous material group, metal organic frameworks (MOFs), over the past decade. MOFs possess a wide array of potential applications in chemical engineering, chemistry, and materials science, including gas storage, gas separation, and catalysis. One of the areas MOFs started to appear recently is biomedical applications. The unique physica...

Alexander G. Nikolaev Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260 [email protected] Sheldon H. Jacobson Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 [email protected] Wendy K. Tam Cho Departments of Political Science and Statistics and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Univ...

This paper overviews the Philadelphia Area Urban Wireless Network Testbed (PA-UWNT) project and several applications of artificial intelligence therein. PA-UWNT is a research and development effort in mobile and ubiquitous computing, focusing on communication and collaboration between first responders and other emergency personnel. Support systems in these environments face a number of challeng...

The rapid progress in mass storage technology is enabling designers to implement large databases for a variety of applications. The possible configurations of the hierarchical storage structures (HSS) are numerous and result in various tradeoffs, e.g., storage cost, throughput, initial latency, etc. A naive design might waste system resources and result in high cost. For example, one naive desi...

Securing storage resources in Grid environments has increasingly become a major concern to make Grids attractive for a wide range of data-intensive applications, because security requirements are often imposed on storage resources to support security-critical applications. However, existing storage systems are unable to dynamically adjust quality of security to meet the flexible security needs ...

Contributory applications allow users to donate unused resources on their personal computers to a shared pool. Applications such as SETI@home, Folding@home, and Freenet are now in wide use and provide a variety of services, including data processing and content distribution. However, while several research projects have proposed contributory applications that support peer-to-peer storage system...

Data streaming applications bring new challenges to resource management and scheduling for grid computing. Since real-time data streaming is required as data processing is going on, integrated grid resource management becomes essential among processing, storage and networking resources. Traditional scheduling approaches may not be sufficient for such applications, since usually only one aspect ...

Storage for cluster applications is typically provisioned based on rough, qualitative characterizations of applications. Moreover, configurations are often selected based on rules of thumb and are usually homogeneous across a deployment; to handle increased load, the application is simply scaled out across additional machines and storage of the same type. As deployments grow larger and storage ...