The Canadian Brain Imaging Research Platform (CBRAIN) is a web-based collaborative
research platform developed in response to the challenges raised by data-heavy, compute …

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contributed articles DATA-orienTeD sCienTifiC ProCesses depend on fast, accurate analysis of …

Data replication has been well adopted in data intensive scientific applications to reduce
data file transfer time and bandwidth consumption. However, the problem of data replication …

Objective As biomedical technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, researchers can
probe ever more subtle effects with the added requirement that the investigation of small …

Scientific workflows consist of tasks that operate on input data to generate new data
products that are used by subsequent tasks. Workflow management systems typically stage …

Scientific workflows are increasingly used in High Performance Computing (HPC)
environments to manage complex simulation and analyses, often consuming and …

This paper presents a classification of file placement and replication methods on grids. The
study is motivated by file transfer issues encountered in the Virtual Imaging Platform …

With the widespread availability of high-speed networks, it becomes feasible to outsource
computing to remote providers and to federate resources from many locations. Such …

The Data Grid provides massive aggregated computing resources and distributed storage
space to deal with data-intensive applications. Due to the limitation of available resources in …

This paper explores the ability to use graphics processing units (GPUs) as co-processors to
harness the inherent parallelism of batch operations in systems that require high …