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- High Performance Parallel Computing With Clouds and Cloud Technologies
- Infrastructure services (Infrastructure-as-a-service), provided by cloud vendors, allow any user to provision a large number of compute instances fairly easily. Whether leased from public clouds or allocated from private clouds, utilizing these virtual resources to perform data/compute intensive analyses requires employing different parallel runtimes to implement such applications. Among many...
- Tags: High-performance, Computing, Indiana University, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2009-06-16
- On the Use of Cloud Computing for Scientific Workflows
- This paper explores the use of cloud computing for scientific workflows, focusing on a widely used astronomy application-Montage. The approach is to evaluate from the point of view of a scientific workflow the tradeoffs between running in a local environment, if such is available, and running in a virtual environment...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Virtual Environment, Workflow, Indiana University, Process Improvement, WANs, Virtualization, Quality, Business Operations, Networking, Hardware
- White papers 2008-10-31
- Extended Assortitivity and the Structure in the Open Source Development Community
- Open source software development represents the work of hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of developers around the world and is a critical component of many widely-used software products. Much of this development is self-organizing, taking place outside the structures of specific organizations. This paper introduces 'Developmetrics,' the application of Bibliometrics...
- Tags: Software, Network, Open-source Software, Indiana University, Open-source Software Development, Productivity, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2008-02-08
- Enabling Web Service Extensions for Scientific Workflows
- Web Services have become an integral part of workflow orchestration in scientific applications and many tools used by scientists including Kepler, Taverna and Triana incorporate Web Services. However orchestration of complex workflows that involve services that exploit standards like WS-Addressing or WS-Security are not easily managed by these tools. Most...
- Tags: Web, Use Case, Web Service, Web Services Security, Workflow, Indiana University, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Security, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-01-01
- GridTorrent Framework: A High-Performance Data Transfer and Data Sharing Framework for Scientific Computing
- Large amount of data that is often stored in many thousands of files is created as part of today's geographically distributed scientific computation and collaboration environments. Managing and transferring large volumes of data sets present a significant challenge and are often a bottleneck in the scientific computing community. This paper...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Data, High-performance, Computing, Indiana University, Data Sharing, Tcp/Ip, WANs, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2007-11-05
- Fighting Unicode-Obfuscated Spam
- In the last few years, obfuscation has been used more and more by spammers to make spam emails bypass filters. The standard method is to use images that look like text, since typical spam filters are unable to parse such messages. To fight image-based spam, many spam filters use heuristic...
- Tags: Unicode, Spam Filter, Image, Indiana University, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- White papers 2007-10-05
- The Threat of Political Phishing
- Internet based donations to political candidates are now a vital part of any successful campaign. Tens of millions of dollars are raised each year, primarily in sub one-hundred dollar amounts from individuals around the country. Politicians have exempted their own campaign donation solicitation emails from federal anti-spam legislation, and their...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Indiana University, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- White papers 2007-10-05
- Denial of Service Attack Detection Using Extended Analog Computers
- Denial of Service DoS attacks, a damaging assault on computer networking infrastructure, have been extensively examined by the digital computing community. However, no work has been done to examine the ability of Extended Analog Computers EAC to detect DoS attacks. This paper discusses how EACs could be used in DoS...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Computer Networking, Indiana University, Computer, Security
- White papers 2007-05-14
- AJAX Integration Approach for Collaborative Calendar-Server Web Services
- The proliferation of the impressive web technologies provides developers with a way to produce performance efficient, usable, rich and interactive web based applications. A set of new technologies called AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript And XML for the browser based applications is gaining the web developer's interest. This paper presents a generic...
- Tags: Indiana University, Integration, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0
- White papers 2007-04-30
- Architecture, Performance, and Scalability of a Real-Time Global Positioning System Data Grid
- This paper describes the architecture of the real time SensorGrid system, which supports the real-time message routing and processing of Global Positioning System data. The current system processes 1 Hz position data from 85 stations in southern and central California. This system is built on a computer network-enabled, topic-based publish/subscribe...
- Tags: Performance, Scalability, Indiana University, GPS, Performance Management, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-23
- C++ Reflection for High Performance Problem Solving Environments
- Problem Solving Environments PSE in scientific computing domains require the ability to couple High Performance Computing HPC components. A PSE facilitates coupling of tasks or computations in order to aid a scientist in finding a solution to a problem or at least getting closer to a solution. Reflection facilitates adaptive...
- Tags: Environment, High-performance, C++, Indiana University, Oceanwerks Software, Problem Solving Environments, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-01-13
- Nortel Network Case Study: Indiana University
- With 8 campuses around the state, Indiana University plays a key role in the economic and social well-being of Indiana residents, offering educational, cultural, and financial benefits to the state. The growing number of students, faculty and staff that need to be connected and the fact that they are all...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Indiana University, Networking
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- The Legal Status of Spyware
- Federal law enables spyware, adware, and phishing businesses to mine consumer data with impunity. This paper demonstrates that although some laws are ineffective, others provide consumers with some minimal relief. In addition, the paper proposes an innovative solution. It also discusses the implications of the "Evil-ution" of software developers in...
- Tags: Software Developer, Law, Indiana University, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Development Tools, Security, Spam And Phishing, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-12-16
- Drive-By Pharming
- Inexpensive broadband routers are a popular way for people to create an internal, and sometimes wireless, network in their homes. By purchasing such a router and plugging it in, they can have a network set up in seconds. Unfortunately, by visiting a malicious web page, a person can inadvertently open...
- Tags: Router, Indiana University, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Security
- White papers 2006-12-13
- Data Integrity & Document-Centric XML a System for Managing Text Collections
- The Digital Library Program DLP at Indiana University manages the production, maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide range of networked information resources for scholars and students at Indiana University and elsewhere. A significant number of these resources are text-based, representing collections of books, manuscripts and reference aids that have...
- Tags: Indiana University, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2006-12-07
- Home Computer Security Awareness
- Home computer security is often a neglected area of security. In the Fall of 2004, with funding from the ACM CREU Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates in Science and Engineering program, a project on home computer security was started. The goal of the project was to enhance the public's understanding...
- Tags: Computer Security, Home PC, Indiana University, Home Computer Security, Desktops, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-13
- Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Management in a Service Oriented Architecture
- With the emergence of Service-based architectures, management of an application which comprises of a large number of distributed services becomes difficult as resources appear, move and disappear across the network. As service components span different network boundaries, constraints such as network policies, firewalls and NAT devices further complicate management by...
- Tags: Fault-tolerance, Network, SOA, Management, Indiana University, Networking
- White papers 2006-10-09
- Routing Electronic Documents With OneStart Workflow - A White Paper
- The workflow for business, academic, and student activities at Indiana University is increasingly being facilitated with "electronic documents," transactions that are authored and processed in Web-based enterprise systems. Just as these electronic documents make gathering the relevant information both easier and more accurate, they can now be routed through a...
- Tags: Electronic Document, Workflow, Indiana University, OneStart Workflow, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Applications of HPJava
- This paper describes two applications of the HPJava language for parallel computing. The first is a multigrid solver for a Poisson equation, and the second is a CFD application that solves the Euler equations for inviscid flow. This paper illustrates how the features of the HPJava language allow these algorithms...
- Tags: Indiana University, Engineering, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- University Cuts Downtime, Saves Thousands of Dollars a Year in Data Center Costs
- Indiana University is a large state university and leading research center with 100,000 students. The university's Auxiliary Information Technology AIT department, which manages IT services for auxiliary departments, deployed Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V virtualization technology in its data center. The IT staff continued to look for opportunities to enhance...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Downtime, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2009-10-01
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