Abstract
To facilitate transparent use of the high-performance Across Trophic-Level System Simulation (ATLSS) ecosystem-modeling package for natural-resource management, the authors developed a grid service module. The module exploits grid middleware functionality to process complex computation without requiring users to handle underlying issues. It represents the first application of grid computing to this discipline and provides a potential template for researches in other disciplines to exploit scientific computation without extensive training in high-performance computing.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 35-41 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | IEEE Internet Computing |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2005 |
Funding
This research is supported by the US National Science Foundation under grant number DEB-0219269. This research used the resources of the Scalable Intracampus Research Grid (SInRG) project at the University of Tennessee, which is supported by NSF’s CISE Research Infrastructure Award EIA-9972889. The authors appreciate support for ATLSS model development from the US Geological Survey, through cooperative agreement number 1445-CA09-95-0094 with the University of Tennessee, and the US Department of the Interior's Critical Ecosystem Studies Initiative.