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Papers by Geoffrey Fox
Special Purpose Computers, 1988
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As Cloud computing emerges as the dominant paradigm in distributed systems, it's important to ful... more As Cloud computing emerges as the dominant paradigm in distributed systems, it's important to fully understand the underlying technologies that make clouds possible. One technology, and perhaps the most important, is virtualization. Recently virtualization through the use of hypervisors has become widespread and well understood by many. However, there are a wide spread of different hypervisors, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. This emerging research provides a full analysis of today's best virtualization technologies from feature comparison to in-depth performance analysis, focusing on the applicability to high-performance computing environments using FutureGrid resources.
Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, Sep 25, 2010
1]. The papers were all enhanced over the conference versions and separately reviewed.
Proceedings of the Fifth Siam Conference on Parallel Processing For Scientific Computing, Mar 25, 1991
With the advent of Cloud computing, a wide variety of Infrastructure as a Service models have gro... more With the advent of Cloud computing, a wide variety of Infrastructure as a Service models have grown to provide users with one of the greatest benefits of Clouds: a customized system environment. These services, while extremely useful, often suffer from their ability to interoperate and communicate across administratively separate domains. Within FutureGrid, an experimental cloud and grid testbed, we look to mitigate these challenges by providing stratosphere-level image repository and management tools. These systems will enable users to more easily generate images and manage them within an independent image repository, eventually enabling users to take full advantage of both private and public clouds with ease.
Proceedings of the 11th Acm Sigplan Sigops International Conference, Mar 14, 2015
Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications -, 1988
Abstract This work describes the implementation of a finite-difference algorithm, incorporating t... more Abstract This work describes the implementation of a finite-difference algorithm, incorporating the flux-corrected transport technique, on the NCUBE hypercube. The algorithm is used to study two-dimensional, convectively-dominated fluid flows, and as a sample problem the onset and growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is investigated. Timing results are presented for a number of different sized problems on hypercubes of dimension up to 9. These results are interpreted by means of a simple performance model ...
Nucl Phys B, 1968
A class of finite-energy sum rules is derived, involving photoproduction cross sections, which pr... more A class of finite-energy sum rules is derived, involving photoproduction cross sections, which provides a check of the hypothesis of analytic amplitudes and which enables one to predict, from low-energy data. the values of o/(0) for the Pomeranchuk. A2, A 1 and D trajectories. The present experimental situation does not permit useful numerical calculations. The Drell-Hearn and other superconvergence sum rules are also discussed.
Concurrency Practice and Experience, 2000
Abstract Clouds seem like'Grids Done Right', including scalability, tra... more Abstract Clouds seem like'Grids Done Right', including scalability, transparency, and ease of management. Virtual Machines are the dominant application environments for compute Clouds, however, that does not make application programming any less relevant than “non-virtualized” environments. The limited set of successful Cloud applications show that distributed programming patterns of the type of MapReduce and All-Pairs are required to make Cloud infrastructure a viable compute environment for a large class of problems. ...
Ieee Cloud Computing, Jul 1, 2014
ABSTRACT In this issue of IEEE Cloud Computing, EIC Mazin Yousif talks with experts from US and E... more ABSTRACT In this issue of IEEE Cloud Computing, EIC Mazin Yousif talks with experts from US and European universities about the current state of cloud computing as well as where the technology is heading over next 5 to 10 years. They cover critical cloud topics, such as security, privacy, and standardization.
Agu Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2002
Grid technology promises to greatly enhance the analysis of data and their integration into all E... more Grid technology promises to greatly enhance the analysis of data and their integration into all Earth Science fields. To prepare for this, one should "package" applications as Web Services using standards develop by the computer industry and W3C consortium. We report on some early experience with several earthquake simulation programs.
Grid and Cooperative Computing, 2005
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Special Purpose Computers, 1988
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As Cloud computing emerges as the dominant paradigm in distributed systems, it's important to ful... more As Cloud computing emerges as the dominant paradigm in distributed systems, it's important to fully understand the underlying technologies that make clouds possible. One technology, and perhaps the most important, is virtualization. Recently virtualization through the use of hypervisors has become widespread and well understood by many. However, there are a wide spread of different hypervisors, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. This emerging research provides a full analysis of today's best virtualization technologies from feature comparison to in-depth performance analysis, focusing on the applicability to high-performance computing environments using FutureGrid resources.
Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, Sep 25, 2010
1]. The papers were all enhanced over the conference versions and separately reviewed.
Proceedings of the Fifth Siam Conference on Parallel Processing For Scientific Computing, Mar 25, 1991
With the advent of Cloud computing, a wide variety of Infrastructure as a Service models have gro... more With the advent of Cloud computing, a wide variety of Infrastructure as a Service models have grown to provide users with one of the greatest benefits of Clouds: a customized system environment. These services, while extremely useful, often suffer from their ability to interoperate and communicate across administratively separate domains. Within FutureGrid, an experimental cloud and grid testbed, we look to mitigate these challenges by providing stratosphere-level image repository and management tools. These systems will enable users to more easily generate images and manage them within an independent image repository, eventually enabling users to take full advantage of both private and public clouds with ease.
Proceedings of the 11th Acm Sigplan Sigops International Conference, Mar 14, 2015
Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications -, 1988
Abstract This work describes the implementation of a finite-difference algorithm, incorporating t... more Abstract This work describes the implementation of a finite-difference algorithm, incorporating the flux-corrected transport technique, on the NCUBE hypercube. The algorithm is used to study two-dimensional, convectively-dominated fluid flows, and as a sample problem the onset and growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is investigated. Timing results are presented for a number of different sized problems on hypercubes of dimension up to 9. These results are interpreted by means of a simple performance model ...
Nucl Phys B, 1968
A class of finite-energy sum rules is derived, involving photoproduction cross sections, which pr... more A class of finite-energy sum rules is derived, involving photoproduction cross sections, which provides a check of the hypothesis of analytic amplitudes and which enables one to predict, from low-energy data. the values of o/(0) for the Pomeranchuk. A2, A 1 and D trajectories. The present experimental situation does not permit useful numerical calculations. The Drell-Hearn and other superconvergence sum rules are also discussed.
Concurrency Practice and Experience, 2000
Abstract Clouds seem like'Grids Done Right', including scalability, tra... more Abstract Clouds seem like'Grids Done Right', including scalability, transparency, and ease of management. Virtual Machines are the dominant application environments for compute Clouds, however, that does not make application programming any less relevant than “non-virtualized” environments. The limited set of successful Cloud applications show that distributed programming patterns of the type of MapReduce and All-Pairs are required to make Cloud infrastructure a viable compute environment for a large class of problems. ...
Ieee Cloud Computing, Jul 1, 2014
ABSTRACT In this issue of IEEE Cloud Computing, EIC Mazin Yousif talks with experts from US and E... more ABSTRACT In this issue of IEEE Cloud Computing, EIC Mazin Yousif talks with experts from US and European universities about the current state of cloud computing as well as where the technology is heading over next 5 to 10 years. They cover critical cloud topics, such as security, privacy, and standardization.
Agu Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2002
Grid technology promises to greatly enhance the analysis of data and their integration into all E... more Grid technology promises to greatly enhance the analysis of data and their integration into all Earth Science fields. To prepare for this, one should "package" applications as Web Services using standards develop by the computer industry and W3C consortium. We report on some early experience with several earthquake simulation programs.
Grid and Cooperative Computing, 2005
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