Over the past two decades, computational methods have radically changed the ability of
researchers from all areas of scholarship to process and analyze data and to simulate complex …

Today’s computational, experimental, and observational sciences rely on computations that
involve many related tasks. The success of a scientific mission often hinges on the computer …

The advent of general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU's) brings about a whole
new platform for running numerically intensive applications at high speeds. Their multi-core …

Desktop resources are attractive for running compute-intensive distributed applications.
Several systems that aggregate these resources in desktop grids have been developed. While …

The economics of flash vs. disk storage is driving HPC centers to incorporate faster solid-state
burst buffers into the storage hierarchy in exchange for smaller parallel file system (PFS) …

Pseudoknots have been recognized to be an important type of RNA secondary structures
responsible for many biological functions. PseudoBase, a widely used database of pseudoknot …

Many emerging scientific workflows that target high-end HPC systems require complex
interplay with the resource and job management software (RJMS). However, portable, efficient …

VPIC is a general purpose particle-in-cell simulation code for modeling plasma phenomena
such as magnetic reconnection, fusion, solar weather, and laser-plasma interaction in three …

Soil moisture plays a key role in the Earth’s water and carbon cycles, but acquisition of
continuous (ie, gap-free) soil moisture measurements across large regions is a challenging task …

We use supervised machine learning algorithms (ie, Decision Trees, Random Forest, and K-nearest
Neighbors) to predict performance characteristics such as runtime and IO traffic of …