Elasticity in the cloud
By David Chiu, March 2010
Articles Tagged: Operating systems
Articles & Features
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
Clouds at the crossroads
Despite its promise, most cloud computing innovations have been almost exclusively driven by a few industry leaders, such as Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and IBM. The involvement of a wider research community, both in academia and industrial labs, has so far been patchy without a clear agenda. In our opinion, the limited participation stems from the prevalent view that clouds are mostly an engineering and business-oriented phenomenon based on stitching together existing technologies and tools.
By Ymir Vigfusson, Gregory Chockler, 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
Desktop open source
By Bryan Stroubeé, May 2006
Introduction
By William Stevenson, October 2005
Building a nocturnal cluster with nonstandard hardware
By Eric J. Shamow, December 2002
Q2ADPZ* an open source, multi-platform system for distributed computing
By Zoran Constantinescu, Pavel Petrovic, December 2002
An introduction to active network node operating systems
By Parveen Patel, December 2002
A day in the life of…Richard Stallman
By Richard Stallman, June 2002
Desktop open source
By Bryan Stroube, June 2002
Charlotte
By Stuart Patterson, June 2000
Microsoft Windows programming strategies
By Mike Maxim, June 2000
RTLinux
By Kevin Fu, September 1999
Introduction
By Kevin Fu, September 1999
Linux DSP shell
By Michael Stricklen, Bob Cummings, Brandon Bonner, September 1999
Introduction to Linux networking and security
By Wei-Mei Shyr, Brian Borowski, September 1999
Parallel computing with Linux
By Forrest Hoffman, William Hargrove, September 1999
The Texas Tech tornado cluster
By Per Andersen, September 1999
Software review: to warp or not to warp
By Scott Ramsay MacDonald, February 1996
Opinion: operating system wars
By Bradley M. Kuhn, February 1995
There can be only one
By Vernard Martin, February 1995
Operating freely
By Chuck Cranor, February 1995
Software Review: my humble opinions on Windows NT vs. OS/2
By Ronald B. Krisko, February 1995