SECTION: Features
Sustainable data centers
How Google addresses energy and environment issues as they pertain to its global data centers.
By Bill Weihl, Erik Teetzel, Jimmy Clidaras, Chris Malone, Joe Kava, Michael Ryan, June 2011
Articles Tagged: File systems management
Articles & Features
Elasticity in the cloud
By David Chiu, March 2010
Cloud computing in plain English
By Ryan K. L. Ko, March 2010
Volunteer computing
Computers continue to get faster exponentially, but the computational demands of science are growing even faster. Extreme requirements arise in at least three areas.
By David P. Anderson, March 2010
Scientific workflows and clouds
In recent years, empirical science has been evolving from physical experimentation to computation-based research. In astronomy, researchers seldom spend time at a telescope, but instead access the large number of image databases that are created and curated by the community [42]. In bioinformatics, data repositories hosted by entities such as the National Institutes of Health [29] provide the data gathered by Genome-Wide Association Studies and enable researchers to link particular genotypes to a variety of diseases.
By Gideon Juve, Ewa Deelman, March 2010
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, March 2009
State considerations in distributed systems
By Daniel W. Goldberg, March 2009