Scale and performance in a distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Integrating parallel file I/O and database support for high-performance scientific data management
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Active Storage for Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia
VLDB '98 Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
The SDSC storage resource broker
CASCON '98 Proceedings of the 1998 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Scientific data repositories: designing for a moving target
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems
Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems
Face recognition: A literature survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Pegasus: A framework for mapping complex scientific workflows onto distributed systems
Scientific Programming
MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
Failure trends in a large disk drive population
FAST '07 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
Dryad: distributed data-parallel programs from sequential building blocks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007
A fast algorithm for ICP-based 3D shape biometrics
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Recent Research Advances in e-Science
Cluster Computing
Towards long term data quality in a large scale biometrics experiment
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
ROARS: a scalable repository for data intensive scientific computing
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
ROARS: a robust object archival system for data intensive scientific computing
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Scripting distributed scientific workflows using Weaver
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
Biometric Evaluation on the Cloud: A Case Study with HumanID Gait Challenge
UCC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM Fifth International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
Secure and verifiable outsourcing of large-scale biometric computations
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Secure outsourced computation of iris matching
Journal of Computer Security
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Research in the field of biometrics depends on the effective management and analysis of many terabytes of digital data. The quality of an experimental result is often highly dependent upon the sheer amount of data marshalled to support it. However, the current state of the art requires researchers to have a heroic level of expertise in systems software to perform large scale experiments. To address this, we have designed and implemented BXGrid, a data repository and workflow abstraction for biometrics research. The system is composed of a relational database, an active storage cluster, and a campus computing grid. End users interact with the system through a high level abstraction of four stages: Select, Transform, AllPairs, and Analyze. A high degree of availability and reliability is achieved through transparent fail over, three phase operations, and independent auditing. BXGrid is currently in daily production use by an active biometrics research group at the University of Notre Dame. We discuss our experience in constructing and using the system and offer lessons learned in conducting collaborative research in e-Science.