A calculus of mobile processes, I
Information and Computation
A calculus of mobile processes, II
Information and Computation
Application-level scheduling on distributed heterogeneous networks
Supercomputing '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
The Definition of Standard ML
A Resource Management Architecture for Metacomputing Systems
IPPS/SPDP '98 Proceedings of the Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Nimrod: a tool for performing parametrised simulations using distributed workstations
HPDC '95 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Grids as Production Computing Environments: The Engineering Aspects of NASA's Information Power Grid
HPDC '99 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
GridAnt: A Client-Controllable Grid Work.ow System
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 7 - Volume 7
Predicting allergenic proteins using wavelet transform
Bioinformatics
The virtual data grid: a new model and architecture for data-intensive collaboration
SSDBM '03 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Implementing a bioinformatics workflow in a parallel and distributed environment
PDCAT'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing: applications and Technologies
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
GCCB'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Distributed, high-performance and grid computing in computational biology
An adaptive skeletal task farm for grids
Euro-Par'05 Proceedings of the 11th international Euro-Par conference on Parallel Processing
Swift: A language for distributed parallel scripting
Parallel Computing
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We consider the problem of programming parallel applications for a Grid environment, in the presence of the two main challenges (i) high-latency communications and (ii) heterogeneity. We describe a new scripting language, GEL, whose semantics have been designed for execution on a heterogeneous, distributed computer. The language provides syntactic constructs for while loops, conditionals and explicitly parallel execution. The language is designed to work well given these two challenges, and to allow succinct representation of parallel programs, resulting in easier-to-maintain code. The programs can use legacy applications without re-engineering, and do not explicitly refer to resource names or use middleware-specific references. This middleware-independence allows us to execute the same script on an SMP machine, cluster or Grid. We describe three example applications written in GEL: an optimisation problem solved using a swarm algorithm; an allergenicity prediction pipeline; and transcript analysis for tissue-specific gene expression. We have run these scripts unchanged on an SMP machine, on PBS, SGE and LSF clusters, and on a Globus-based Grid.