The popularity of Cloud computing due to the increasing number of customers has led Cloud
providers to adopt resource-sharing solutions to meet growing demand for infrastructure …

Large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) applications running on supercomputers
produce large amounts of data routinely and store it in files on multi-PB shared parallel …

Computational science is well established as the third pillar of scientific discovery and is on
par with experimentation and theory. However, as we move closer toward the ability to …

Scientific workflows have become the mainstream to conduct large-scale scientific research.
In the meantime, cloud computing has emerged as an alternative computing paradigm. In …

Biologists and environmental scientists now routinely solve computational problems that
were unimaginable a generation ago. Examples include processing geospatial data …

The use of virtualization technology in industrial control is increasing. However, virtual
instances or virtual machines (VMs) are confronted with the unreasonable resource …

As promising results have been obtained in defeating code obfuscation techniques,
malware authors have adopted protection approaches to hide malware-related data from …

Multi-tenant cloud infrastructures are increasingly used for high-performance and high-
throughput domain science applications. Various cloud platforms, such as OpenStack and …

In this paper, we study the problem of provisioning large-scale virtual clusters over federated
clouds connected by multi-domain, layer-2 wide area networks. We first present the virtual …

This is the final report for the UNC component of the SciDAD Institute for Sustained
Performance, Energy, and Resilience. In this report, we describe activities on the SUPER …