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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Grid Computing Based Virtual Laboratory for Environmental Simulations
The effective and efficient computing resource allocation, leveraging on a flexible, but straightforward to deploy, configure and use matchmaking tool, is a key component in the grand challenge of realistic, h...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integrated ClassAd-Latent Semantic Indexing Matchmaking Algorithm for Globus Toolkit Based Computing Grids
The effective and efficient computing resource allocation is a critical issue in the challenging achievement of realistic, high space and temporal resolution and computing time affordable weather, marine and s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A GPGPU Transparent Virtualization Component for High Performance Computing Clouds
The GPU Virtualization Service (gVirtuS) presented in this work tries to fill the gap between in-house hosted computing clusters, equipped with GPGPUs devices, and pay-for-use high performance virtual clusters...
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Chapter
Multidimensional Environmental Data Resource Brokering on Computational Grids and Scientific Clouds
Grid computing has widely evolved over the past years, and its capabilities have found their way even into business products and are no longer relegated to scientific applications. Today, grid computing techno...
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Using Hybrid Grid/Cloud Computing Technologies for Environmental Data Elastic Storage, Processing, and Provisioning
High-resolution climate and weather forecast models, and regional and global sensor networks, are producing ever-larger quantities of multidimensional environmental data. To be useful, this data must be stored...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SOLE: Linking Research Papers with Science Objects
We introduce Science Object Linking and Embedding (SOLE), a tool for linking research papers with associated science objects, such as source codes, datasets, annotations, workflows, packages, and virtual machine ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A General-Purpose Virtualization Service for HPC on Cloud Computing: An Application to GPUs
This paper describes the generic virtualization service GVirtuS (Generic Virtualization Service), a framework for development of split-drivers for cloud virtualization solutions. The main goal of GVirtuS is to...
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Article
Special Issue on Novel Parallel and Distributed Computing Paradigms
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The High Performance Internet of Things: Using GVirtuS to Share High-End GPUs with ARM Based Cluster Computing Nodes
The availability of computing resources and the need for high quality services are rapidly evolving the vision about the acceleration of knowledge development, improvement and dissemination. The Internet of Th...
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Article
Virtualizing high-end GPGPUs on ARM clusters for the next generation of high performance cloud computing
High performance cloud computing is behind the scene powering “the next big thing” as the mainstream accelerator for innovation in many areas. We describe here how to accelerate inexpensive ARM-based computing...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Virtualizing CUDA Enabled GPGPUs on ARM Clusters
The acceleration of inexpensive ARM-based computing nodes with high-end CUDA enabled GPGPUs hosted on x86 64 machines using the GVirtuS general-purpose virtualization service is a novel approach to hierarchica...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enabling Android-Based Devices to High-End GPGPUs
The success of Android is based on its unified Java programming model that allows to write platform-independent programs for a variety of different target platforms. In this paper we describe the first, to the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
WhoAreYou (WAY): A Mobile CUDA Powered Picture ID Card Recognition System
The paper reports a novel cloud based approach for image matching between high-resolution images of faces and low resolution images of ID Cards. We design our application matching the mobile cloud computing de...
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Article
Guest Editorial for Hybrid Parallelism in New HPC Systems
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On the Virtualization of CUDA Based GPU Remoting on ARM and X86 Machines in the GVirtuS Framework
The astonishing development of diverse and different hardware platforms is twofold: on one side, the challenge for the exascale performance for big data processing and management; on the other side, the mobile...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance Assessment of the Incremental Strong Constraints 4DVAR Algorithm in ROMS
We consider the Incremental Strong constraint 4D VARiational (IS4DVAR) algorithm for data assimilation implemented in ROMS with the aim to study its performance in terms of strong scaling scalability on comput...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance, Resilience, and Security in Moving Data from the Fog to the Cloud: The DYNAMO Transfer Framework Approach
The data crowdsourcing paradigm applied in coastal and marine monitoring and management has been developed only recently due to the challenges of the marine environment. The pervasive internet of things techno...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using GPGPU Accelerated Interpolation Algorithms for Marine Bathymetry Processing with On-Premises and Cloud Based Computational Resources
Data crowdsourcing is one of most remarkable results of pervasive and internet connected low-power devices making diverse and different “things” as a world wide distributed system. This paper is focused on a v...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Relaxing the Correctness Conditions on Concurrent Data Structures for Multicore CPUs. A Numerical Case Study
The rise of new multicore CPUs introduced new challenges in the process of design of concurrent data structures: in addition to traditional requirements like correctness, linearizability and progress, the scal...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
StormSeeker: A Machine-Learning-Based Mediterranean Storm Tracer
The Mediterranean area is subject to a range of destructive weather events, including middle-latitudes storms, Mediterranean sub-tropical hurricane-like storms (“medicanes”), and small-scale but violent local ...
