Grids and Networking Papers of CSAG

2007

• RobuSTore: A Distributed Storage Architecture with Robust and High Performance, Huaxia Xia and Andrew A. Chien. To appear in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (SC'07), November 2007.
• Automatic Resource Specification Generation for Resource Selection, Richard Huang, Henri Casanova, Andrew A. Chien. To appear in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (SC'07), November 2007.
• Evaluating Network Information Models on Resource Efficiency and Application Performance in Lambda-Grids, Nut Taesombut, and Andrew A. Chien. to be published in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (SC'07), November 2007.
• Generating Grid Resource Requirement Specifications, Richard Huang, Henri Casanova, and Andrew A. Chien, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'07), June 2007.
• Evaluating the Impacts of Network Information Models on Applications and Network Service Providers, Nut Taesombut and Andrew A. Chien, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'07), June 2007.
•  Partial Content Distribution on High Performance Networks, Eric Weigle and Andrew A. Chien, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), June 2007, Monterey, CA, USA.

2006

• A Distributed Algorithm for Max-Min Bandwidth Sharing: The Asynchronous Case, Xinran (Ryan) Wu and Andrew A. Chien, UCSD Technical Report, September 2006
• Peer-to-Peer Error Recovery for Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Networks, Eric Weigle, Matti Hiltunen, Rick Schlichting, Vinay A. Vaishampayan, and Andrew A. Chien In Proceedings of Sixth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2006), September 2006, Cambridge, UK.
• Improving Grid Resource Allocation via Integrated Selection and Binding , Yang-Suk Kee, Ken Yocum, Andrew A. Chien, Henri Casanova, Accepted, ACM/IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (SC’06), Nov. 2006, Tampa, Florida, USA.
• Robust Resource Allocation for Large-scale Distributed Shared Resource Environments, Yang-Suk Kee, Ken Yocum, Andrew A. Chien, Henri Casanova, IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-15), pp. 341-342, Jun. 2006, Paris, France.
• Real-time Multi-Scale Data Acquisition, Assembly, and Analysis Using an End-to-End OptIPuter, Rajvikram Singh, Nicholas Schwarz, Nut Taesombut, David Lee, et al., in Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 22(8), Pages 1032-1039, October 2006.
• Collaborative Data Visualization for Earth Sciences with the OptIPuter, Nut Taesombut, Xinran Wu, Andrew A. Chien, et al., in Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol 22(8), Pages 955-963, October, 2006.
• The OptIPuter: High-Performance, QoS-Guaranteed Network Service for Emerging E-Science Applications, Nut Taesombut, Frank Uyeda, Andrew A. Chien, et al., in IEEE Communication Magazine, Vol 44(5), Pages 38-45, May 2006. N Available at IEEE Xplore.
• Using Virtual Grids to Simplify Application Scheduling, Richard Huang, Henri Casanova, and Andrew A. Chien, In Proceedings of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, April 2006.
• RobuSTore: Robust Performance for Distributed Storage Systems, Huaxia Xia and Andrew A. Chien, In 14th NASA Goddard - 23nd IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2006), May 2006. An extended version is available as UCSD Technical Report CS2006-0851 (pdf).
• Evaluation of End-node Based Protocols for Lambda Networks, Xinran (Ryan) Wu and Andrew A. Chien. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks (PFLDNet2006), Nara, Japan, Feb 2-3, 2006

2005

• A Distributed Algorithm for Max-min Fair Bandwidth Sharing, Xinran (Ryan) Wu, and Andrew A. Chien, An extended version is available as UCSD Technical Report, Oct 2005. Also available in pdf.
• RobuSTore: Robust Performance for Distributed Storage Systems, Huaxia Xia and Andrew A. Chien, UCSD Technical Report CS2005-0838, Also available in pdf (Deprecated, please see Tech Report CS2006-0851).
• Combined Selection and Binding for Competitive Resource Environments, Yang-Suk Kee, Henri Casanova, Andrew A. Chien, UCSD Technical Report CS2005-0825, Also available in pdf.
• The Entropia Virtual Machine for Desktop Grids, Brad Calder, Andrew A. Chien, Ju Wang, and Don Yang, In Proceedings of the First ACM/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'05), June 2005.
• Efficient Resource Description and High Quality Selection for Virtual Grids, Yang-Suk Kee, Dionysios Logothetis, Richard Huang, Henri Casanova, and Andrew A. Chien, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005).
• The Composite Endpoint Protocol (CEP): Scalable Endpoints for Terabit Flows, Eric Weigle and Andrew A. Chien. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005).
• A High Performance Configurable Transport Protocol for Grid Computing, Xinran (Ryan) Wu, Andrew A. Chien, Matti A. Hiltunen, Richard D. Schlichting and Subhabrata Sen. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005). 
• Models and Modeling Infrastructures. April 2005, Proceedings of NSF Next Generation Systems Program Workshop (International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2005), Denver, Colorado . (Rich Wolski, Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Henri Casanova, and Andrew Chien)

2004

• Efficient Resource Description and High Quality Selection for Virtual Grids, Yang-Suk Kee, Dionysios Logothetis, Richard Huang, Henri Casanova, Andrew Chien, UCSD Technical Report CS2004-0806.  Also available in pdf.
• Evaluation of a High Performance Erasure Code Implementation, Frank Uyeda, Huaxia Xia, Andrew Chien, UCSD Technical Report CS2004-0798.  Also available in pdf.
• Scalable Online Simulation for Modeling Grid Dynamics, Xin Liu PhD Thesis, November 2004.
• Realistic Large Scale Online Network Simulation, Xin Liu and Andrew Chien, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking, SC2004, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2004.
• Realistic Modeling and Synthesis of Resources for Computational Grids, Yang-Suk Kee, Henri Casanova, and Andrew Chien,  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking, SC2004, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2004.
• Resource Management for Rapid Application Turnaround on Enterprise Desktop Grids, Derrick Kondo, Andrew A. Chien, and Henri Casanova, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking, SC2004, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2004.
• The Virtual Grid Description Language: vgDL, Andrew Chien, Henri Casanova, Yang-Suk Kee, Richard Huang, UCSD Technical Report CS2005-0817. Also available in pdf.
• OptIPuter System Software Framework, Andrew A. Chien, Xinran (Ryan) Wu, Nut Taesombut, Eric Weigle, Huaxia Xia, and Justin Burke, UCSD Technical Report CS2004-0786.  Also available in pdf.
• Validating and Scaling the MicroGrid: A Scientific Instrument for Grid Dynamics, Xin Liu, Huaxia Xia, and Andrew Chien, In the  Journal of Grid Computing, Volume II, Number 2, pages 141-161.
• Viewpoints on Grid Standards (Andrew A. Chien, Xian-he Sun, and Zhi-wei Xu) which includes Reflections on Grid Middleware – Lessons from the History of Unix  and Linux (Andrew A. Chien), in Journal of Computing Science and Technology, January 2005, Volume 20, Number 1.  (Based on a presentation at a GCC 2003 Panel Discussion)
• Evaluation of Rate-based Transport Protocols for Lambda-Grids, (Ryan Wu and Andrew Chien), In Proceedings of the Thirteenth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2004.
• The MicroGrid: Using Emulation to Predict Application Performance in Diverse Grid Network Environments, Huaxia Xia, Holly Dail, Henri Casanova and Andrew Chien, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE’04), held in conjunction with the Thirteenth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii , June 2004 .
• Distributed Virtual Computer(DVC): Simplifying the Development of High Performance Grid Applications, (Taesombut and Chien), In Proceedings of the Workshop on Grids and Advanced Networks (GAN ’04), April 2004, Chicago, Illinois , held in conjunction with the IEEE Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2004) Conference.
• New Grid Scheduling and Rescheduling Methods in the GrADS Project, (many authors including Alex Olugbile, Huaxia Xia, Xin Liu and Andrew Chien from CSAG), in the Workshop for Next Generation Software, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2004, held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2004.
• GTP: Group Transport Protocol for Lambda-Grids, (Ryan Wu and Andrew Chien), In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2004), Chicago, Illinois , April 2004.
• Study of an Accurate and Fast Protein-Ligand Docking Algorithm based on Molecular Dynamics, (M. Taufer, M. Crowley, D. Price, A. Chien, C. L. Brooks III), In Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB 2004) . To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2004.
• Characterizing and Evaluating Desktop Grids: An Empirical Study, (D. Kondo, M. Taufer, C. Brooks, H. Casanova, and A. Chien), in Proceedings of International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Sante Fe, New Mexico, April 2004.  Also UCSD CSE Technical Report CS2003-0769, October 2003.
• DGMonitor: a Performance Monitoring Tool for Sand-box based Desktop Grid Platforms, (M. Taufer, P. Cicotti, and A. Chien), in the Proceedings of the 3^rd International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of  Parallel and Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS’ 2004), Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2004.
• Evaluation of Rate Based Transport Protocols for Lambda-Grids, (Ryan Wu and Andrew Chien), presented at the Second International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks (PFLDnet 2004), Argonne, Illinois, Feb 2004 (presentation only, to cite this work please cite our HPDC'04 paper)

2003

• Pricing and Rate Adaptation in a Non-Cooperative Environment, (Xinran (Ryan) Wu and P. Marbach), in Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, December 2003.
• The Entropia Virtual Machine for Desktop Grids, (B. Calder, A. Chien, J. Wang, and D. Yang), CSE technical report CS2003-0773, October 28, 2003. (this document has been superseded by The Entropia Virtual Machine for Desktop Grids, Brad Calder, Andrew A. Chien, Ju Wang, and Don Yang, In Proceedings of the First ACM/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'05), June 2005.)
• The OptiPuter, (L. Smarr, A. Chien, T. DeFanti, J. Leigh, and P. Papadopoulos), Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM), 47(11), November 2003.
• Transport Protocols for High Performance: Whither TCP?, (T. Faber, A. Falk, J. Bannister, A. Chien, R. Grossman, and J. Leigh), Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM), 47(11), November 2003.
• Benchmarking High Bandwidth Delay Product Protocols, (Richard Huang and Andrew Chien), October 2003.
• Evaluating the GrADS Scheduler in Diverse Grid Environments Using the MicroGrid, (Huaxia Xia, Holly Dail, Henri Casanova, Fran Berman, Andrew Chien), submitted for publication, May 2003.
• Traffic-based Load Balance for Scalable Network Emulation, Xin Liu and Andrew Chien, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking, SC2003, Phoenix, Arizona , November 2003.
• "Teleimmersion and Visualization with the OptIPuter," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2002), The University of Tokyo, Japan, December 3-6, 2002, Published by Ohmsha/IOS Press, <http://www.ic-at.org/>, (Thomas A. DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Maxine D. Brown, Daniel J. Sandin, Oliver Yu, Chong Zhang, Rajvikram Singh, Eric He, Javid Alimohideen, Naveen K. Krishnaprasad, Robert Grossman, Marco Mazzucco, Larry Smarr, Mark Ellisman, Phil Papadopoulos, Andrew Chien, John Orcutt).
• Network Emulation Tools for Modeling Grid Behaviors. (Xin Liu,  Huaxia Xia, and  Andrew Chien). November 2003.
• Resource Management in the Entropia Desktop Grid System, in Grid Resource Management, Editors: Weglarz, Nabryzski, Schopf, and Stroinski, Kluwer Press, 2003 (Andrew Chien, Shawn Marlin and Steve Elbert)
• Entropia: Architecture and Performance of an Enterprise Desktop Grid System, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2003, Pages 597-610. (Andrew Chien, Brad Calder, Steve Elbert, and Karan Bhatia).  Electronically available from ScienceDirect

2002

• Architecture of a Commercial Enterprise Desktop Grid: The Entropia System  in “Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality”, Editors, F. Berman, G. Fox, and A. Hey,  (Chien), December 2002, Wiley and Sons.  Also to appear in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
• A High-Performance Cluster Storage Server, in Proceedings of HPDC-11, July 2002, Edinburgh, UK ( Bell , Chien, and Lauria)
• Toward a Framework for Preparing and Executing Adaptive Grid Programs. April 2002, Proceedings of NSF Next Generation Systems Program Workshop (International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2002), Fort Lauderdale, FL. (Ken Kennedy, Mark Mazina, John Mellor-Crummey, Keith Cooper, Linda Torczon, Fran Berman, Andrew Chien, Holly Dail, Otto Sievert, Dave Angulo, Ian Foster, Dennis Gannon, Lennart Johnsson, Carl Kesselman, Ruth Aydt, Daniel Reed, Jack Dongarra, Sathish Vadhiyar, and Rich Wolski.)
• Architecture of the Entropia Distributed Computing System, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, April 2002, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA (Chien)

2001

• Parallel programming challenges for Internet-scale computing (Entropia), Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming, Keynote Talk, June 2001.
• The MicroGrid: a Scientific Tool for Modeling Computational Grids , Scientific Programming, Vol. 8, Num 3, 2000, pp. 127-141. (Song, Liu, Jakobsen, Bhagwan, Zhang, Taura and Chien)
• The GrADS Project: Software Support for High-Level Grid Application Development, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Winter 2001 (Volume 15, Number 4), pp. 327-344. (Francine Berman, Andrew Chien, Keith Cooper, Jack Dongarra, Ian Foster, Dennis Gannon, Lennart Johnsson, Ken Kennedy, Carl Kesselman, John Mellor-Crummey, Dan Reed, Linda Torczon, and Rich Wolski.)

2000

• The MicroGrid: a Scientific Tool for Modeling Computational Grids , in Proceedings of SC2000 (Song, Liu, Jakobsen, Bhagwan, Zhang, Taura and Chien)
• A Heuristic Algorithm for Mapping Communicating Tasks on Heterogeneous Resources , To appear in Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, May 1, 2000 (Taura and Chien)

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