The grid
Hierarchical submission in a Grid environment
MGC '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Middleware for grid computing
Bio-STEER: A Semantic Web workflow tool for Grid computing in the life sciences
Future Generation Computer Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
Browser-based distributed evolutionary computation: performance and scaling behavior
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Model Screening: How to Choose the Best Fitting Regression Model?
Neural Information Processing
VECPAR'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on High performance computing for computational science
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Access to sufficient resources is a barrier to scientific progress for many researchers facing large computational problems. Gaining access to large-scale resources (i.e., university-wide or federally supported computer centers) can be difficult, given their limited availability, particular architectures, and request/review/approval cycles. Simultaneously, researchers often find themselves with access to workstations and older clusters overlooked by their owners in favor of newer hardware. Software to tie these resources into a coherent Grid, however, has been problematic. Here, we describe our experiences building a Grid computing system to conduct a large-scale simulation study using "borrowed" computing resources distributed over a wide area. Using standard software components, we have produced a Grid computing system capable of coupling several hundred processors spanning multiple continents and administrative domains. We believe that this system fills an important niche between a closely coupled local system and a heavyweight, highly customized wide area system.