Cloud computing paradigms for pleasingly parallel biomedical applications

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2338-2354

  Gunarathne, Thilina ^a   Wu, Tak Lon ^a   Choi, Jong Youl ^a   Bae, Seung Hee ^a   Qiu, Judy ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bioinformatics; cloud technology; map reduce

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; INVESTMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; STORAGE AS A SERVICE (STAAS); WEB SERVICES; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATIONS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES; DATA-INTENSIVE COMPUTING; ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUDS; MAP-REDUCE; PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 80054919303     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1780     Document Type: Article

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