Beginning in 2003, the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) enabled an
open-access network of distributed sensors and linked computer models through the SURA …

With recent advances in virtual computing and the revelation that compute-intensive tasks
run well on system virtual machines (VMs), the ability to develop, deploy, and manage …

Standard interfaces for data and information access facilitate data management and
usability by minimizing the effort required to acquire, catalog and integrate data from a …

Abstract The Louisiana Coastal Area presents an array of rich and urgent scientific problems
that require new computational approaches. These problems are interconnected with …

ABSTRACT Tummala, S. and Kosar, T., 2007. Data Management Challenges in Coastal
Applications. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50 (Proceedings of the 9th International …

The explosive growth of biological and biomedical research requires a new set of software
tools and a computational environment that includes high performance computing and …

Natural disasters such as hurricanes heavily impact the US East and Gulf coasts. This
creates the need for large scale modeling in the areas of meteorology and ocean sciences …

In software systems development, the increasing size and complexity of systems is handled
by decomposition. Companies additionally sign up different subcontractors for subsystems …

Multicluster Grids have emerged as major execution environments to solve large-scale
compute-intensive applications, with each participating cluster having its own scheduler …

Abstract The economically important Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) is susceptible to
hurricane activity which is increasingly aggravated by the continuing erosion of wetlands …