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Open AccessA Negotiation Protocol for Fine-Grained Accountable Resource Provisioning and Sharing in e-Science
With the increasing demand for dynamic and customised resource provisioning for computational experiments in e-Science, solutions are required to mediate different participants’ varied demands for such resourc...
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Climate, Weather, Agriculture, and Food
Climate and weather are vital factors in food production, principally through their influence on the possibilities, limits, and risks of farming and pastoralism. Nevertheless, the historical links among climat...
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User’s Interpretations of Features in Visualization
Visualization is often used to identify features of interest in a dataset. The identification of features cannot be fully automated and the subjective interpretation of the user is involved in the identificati...
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Workflows for Heliophysics
In this paper we describe how we have introduced workflows into the working practices of a community for whom the concept of workflows is very new, namely the heliophysics community. Heliophysics is a branch o...
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Workflows in Pulsar Astronomy
In this chapter, we describe the development of methods that operate on the output of the signal of a radio telescope to detect the characteristic signals of pulsars. These signals are much weaker than the noi...
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Semantic Matching of Grid Resource Descriptions
The ability to describe the Grid resources needed by applications is essential for develo** seamless access to resources on the Grid. We consider the problem of resource description in the context of a resou...
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The Way to Produce the Quasi-workload in a Cluster
Resource Management Systems (RMS) can be used to improve the utilization of a cluster of workstations or processors. In a system which has a mixture of interactive and batch work and a mixture of serial and pa...
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Cluster Computing
We would like to welcome readers to the Cluster Computing topic of Euro-Par 2001 that was held in the British city of Manchester in the summer of 2001.
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The Problems and the Solutions of the Metacomputing Experiment in SC99
An intercontinental network of supercomputers spanning more than 10000 miles and running challenging scientific applications was realized at the Supercomputing’99 (SC’99) conference in Portland, Oregon, USA us...
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Mini-Grids: Effective Test-Beds for GRID Application
We describe a computing environment that we call a “mini- GRID”. This represents a hetereogeneous group of resources for computation, data storage, archival and visualization which can be connected via private...
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Der Gott Isaac Newtons
Auf den ersten Blick sollte es keine Schwierigkeit sein, die Gottesvorstellung Newtons zu beschreiben. Er gab öffendich Definitionen der Gottheit, die in ihrer Genauigkeit erschöpfend sind. Das beste Beispiel ...
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Early Years 1725–1747
In the summer of 1765, Lord Rockingham, taking stock of his Government’s position in the House of Commons, marked a list of its Members with ‘pro’, ‘contra’, or ‘doubtful’ against their names.1 Two only eluded c...
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Junior Minister 1754–1760
In August 1753 instructions of a rather unusual character were issued to Sir Danvers Osborn, Governor of New York1 — Horace Walpole, writing about 1755, described them as ‘better calculated for the latitude of M...
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At the Board of Trade March–September, 1763
On 2 March 1763 Bute wrote to Fox:1 ‘C. Townshend has given me a most unusual proof of the ungenerous turn of the present age’; and the King to Bute the next day:2
Mr. Charles Townshend’s conduct ...
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Townshend in the Grenville and Rockingham Ministries 1765–1766
By the summer of 1764 Charles Townshend was thoroughly restless, and friends of his connected with the Government were making overtures for his return to office. John Bindley wrote about him to Charles Jenkinso....
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Member of Parliament 1747–1754
At the General Election of 1747, on 30 June, Charles Townshend was returned for Great Yarmouth, a borough where the Townshend and Walpole families had considerable influence. Lord Townshend paid the election ex....
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Townshend in the New Reign 1760–1763
Aseat for Townshend in the new Parliament, the first of George III’s reign, had been a problem for some time past: it seems to have been assumed all along that the seat he held at Saltash was to revert to an A....
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In Opposition 1763–1765
Since his dismissal in April, and even before, Townshend had cultivated Pitt (in March 1763 he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain rank for an officer in whom Pitt interested himself).1 Still more so afte...
