Software Carpentry: Essential Software Skills for Research Scientists

25 Sep 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Greg V Wilson

Many scientists and engineers spend much of their lives writing, debugging, and maintaining software, but only a handful have ever been taught how to do this effectively: after a couple of introductory courses, they are left to rediscover (or reinvent) the rest of programming on their own. As a …

Middleware Support for Virtual Distributed Environments in a Shared Distributed Infrastructure

11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dongyan Xu

The job and service-oriented paradigm of the Grid enables a wide spectrum of applications to share the massive computational power across the Internet. In this talk, I will present a complementary paradigm of virtual distributed environments to accommodate arbitrary parallel/distributed …

Chamaeleo: Toward Self-Managing Service-Oriented Applications

17 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Brahim Medjahed

Service-oriented computing is slated to shape modern societies in vital areas such as healthcare, government, science, business, and finance. It utilizes services as the building blocks for developing collaborative applications, known as service-oriented applications (SOAs), distributed within and …

NCSA: Powering Cyber-research in the 21st Century

09 May 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Thom H. Dunning

Since its creation by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the state of Illinois in 1986, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has been a leader in the development and deployment of new computing and software …