TeraGrid: Analysis of organization, system architecture, and middleware enabling new types of applications

Advances in Parallel Computing

Volumn 16, Issue , 2008, Pages 225-249

  Catlett, Charlie ^a   Allcock, William E ^a   Andrews, Phil ^b   Aydt, Ruth ^f   Bair, Ray ^a   Balac, Natasha ^b   Banister, Bryan ^b   Barker, Trish ^f   Bartelt, Mark ^k   Beckman, Pete ^a   Berman, Francine ^b   Bertoline, Gary ^c   Blatecky, Alan ^j   Boisseau, Jay ^d   Bottum, Jim ^l   Brunett, Sharon ^k   Bunn, Julian ^k   Butler, Michelle ^f   Carver, David ^d   Cobb, John ^e   Cockerill, Tim ^f   Couvares, Peter F ^o   Dahan, Maytal ^d   Diehl, Diana ^b   Dunning, Thom ^f   Foster, Ian ^a   Gaither, Kelly ^d   Gannon, Dennis ^g   Goasguen, Sebastien ^l   Grobe, Michael ^q   Hart, Dave ^b   Heinzel, Matt ^a   Hempel, Chris ^d   Huntoon, Wendy ^h   Insley, Joseph ^a   Jordan, Christopher ^b   Judson, Ivan ^a   Kamrath, Anke ^b   Karonis, Nicholas ^a,m   Kesselman, Carl ⁿ   Kovatch, Patricia ^b   Lane, Lex ^f   Lathrop, Scott ^a   Levine, Michael ^h   Lifka, David ^s   Liming, Lee ^a   Livny, Miron ^o   Loft, Rich ⁱ   Marcusiu, Doru ^f   Marsteller, Jim ^h   Martin, Stuart ^a   McCaulay, Scott ^g   McGee, John ^j   McGinnis, Laura ^h   McRobbie, Michael ^g   Messina, Paul ^a,k   Moore, Reagan ^b   Moore, Richard ^b   Navarro, J P ^a   Nichols, Jeff ^e   Papka, Michael E ^a   Pennington, Rob ^f   Pike, Greg ^e   Pool, Jim ^k   Reddy, Raghu ^h   Reed, Dan ^t   Rimovsky, Tony ^f   Roberts, Eric ^d   Roskies, Ralph ^h   Sanielevici, Sergiu ^h   Scott, J Ray ^h   Shankar, Anurag ^g   Sheddon, Mark ^b   Showerman, Mike ^f   Simmel, Derek ^h   Singer, Abe ^b   Skow, Dane ^a   Smallen, Shava ^b   Smith, Warren ^d   Song, Carol ^c   Stevens, Rick ^a   Stewart, Craig ^g   Stock, Robert B ^h   Stone, Nathan ^h   Towns, John ^f   Urban, Tomislav ^d   Vildibill, Mike ^b,r   Walker, Edward ^d   Welch, Von ^f   Wilkins Diehr, Nancy ^b   Williams, Roy ^k   Winkler, Linda ^a   Zhao, Lan ^c   Zimmerman, Ann ^p   more..

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Texas Advanced Computing Center   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^q INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^s Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^t MICROSOFT   (United States)

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Author keywords

computational science; distributed computing; Grids; high performance computing; infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052316582     PISSN: 09275452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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11. Globus Resource Allocation Manager (GRAM), www.globus.org/toolkit.
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13. Directed Acyclic Graph Manager (DAGman): www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/dagman.
14. Kepler is an open source, cross-platform workflow software project: kepler-project.org.
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26. Kerberos: web.mit.edu/Kerberos.
27. SPRUCE, Beckman et al., Argonne National Laboratory: spruce.teragrid.org.
28. SCxy, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis: www.supercomp.org.