Molecular docking, as one of the widely used virtual screening methods, aims to predict the
binding-conformations of small molecule ligands to the appropriate target binding site …

Pilot-Job systems play an important role in supporting distributed scientific computing. They
are used to execute millions of jobs on several cyberinfrastructures worldwide, consuming …

This chapter introduces and puts in context Grids, Clouds, and Virtualization. Grids promised
to deliver computing power on demand. However, despite a decade of active research, no …

In Grid computing environments, the availability, performance, and state of resources,
applications, services, and data undergo continuous changes during the life cycle of an …

Science gateways have gained increasing attention in the last years from diverse
communities. Science gateways are software solutions that bring out the integration of …

All grid projects have to deal with topology and operational information like resource
distribution, contact lists and downtime declarations. Storing, maintaining and publishing this …

Carbohydrate recognition is a phenomenon critical to a number of biological functions in
humans. Understanding the dynamic behaviour of oligosaccharides should help in the …

With data volumes increasing at a high rate and the emergence of highly scalable
infrastructures (cloud computing, petascale computing), distributed management of data …

Under similar test conditions, the electromigration reliability of Al and Cu metallization
interconnect trees demonstrates significant differences because of the differences in …

There are a few issues that still need to be covered regarding security in the Grid area. One
of them is authorization where there exist good solutions to define, manage and enforce …