Nimrod: Tools for Distributed Parametric Modelling

References

Nimrod References

	Abstract	Paper
Abramson , D., Sosic , R., Giddy , J., Cope , M. "The Laboratory Bench: Distributed Computing for Parametised Simulations", 1994 Parallel Computing and Transputers Conference, Wollongong, Nov 94, pp 17 27.
Abramson D., Sosic R., Giddy J. and Hall B., "Nimrod: A Tool for Performing Parametised Simulations using Distributed Workstations", The 4th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Virginia, August 1995.
Lewis, A., Abramson D., Sosic R., Giddy J., "Tool-based Parameterisation : An Application Perspective", Computational Techniques and Applications Conference, Melbourne, July 1995.
D. Abramson, I. Foster, J. Giddy, A. Lewis, R. Sosic, R. Sutherst, N. White, The Nimrod Computational Workbench: A Case Study in Desktop Metacomputing, Australian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 97), Macquarie University, Sydney, Feb 1997.
Abramson, D., Power, K., and Sosic, R., "Simulating Computer Networks using Clusters of PCs", HPC-TelePar'99 at the 1999 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC'99), April 11-15, San Diego, California,USA
Abramson, D., Giddy, J. and Kotler, L. High Performance Parametric Modeling with Nimrod/G: Killer Application for the Global Grid?, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pp 520- 528, Cancun, Mexico, May 2000.
Buyya, R., Abramson, D. and Giddy, J. Nimrod/G: An Architecture of a Resource Management and Scheduling System in a Global Computational Grid, HPC Asia 2000, May 14-17, 2000, pp 283 289, Beijing, China.
Buyya, R, Abramson, D., and Giddy, J., An Economy Driven Resource Management Architecture for Global Computational Power Grids, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 26 - 29, 2000.
Buyya, R., Giddy, J. and Abramson, D. "An Evaluation of Economy-based Resource Trading and Scheduling on Computational Power Grids for Parameter Sweep Applications", Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS 2000), (in conjuction with Ninth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing), Kluwer Academic Press, August 1, 2000, Pittsburgh, USA.
Buyya, R, Abramson, D., and Giddy, J., “A Case for Economy Grid Architecture for Service Oriented Grid Computing”, 10th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop April 23, 2001 in conjunction with IPDPS in San Francisco, California.
Buyya, R., Stockinger, H., Giddy, J. and Abramson, D. “Economic Models for Management of Resources in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing”, Technical Track on Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing, SPIE International Symposium on The Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications (ITCom 2001), August 20-24, 2001, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, and Jonathan Giddy, Nimrod-G Resource Broker for Service-Oriented Grid Computing, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, in Volume 2 Number 7, November 2001.
Abramson, D, Buuya, R. and Giddy, J. “A Computational Economy for Grid Computing and its Implementation in the Nimrod-G Resource Broker”, Future Generation Computer Systems. Volume 18, Issue 8, Oct-2002.
Buyya, R., Branson, K., Giddy, J. Abramson, D., “The Virtual Laboratory: Enabling On Demand Drug Design with the Worldwide Grid”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 15(1), 2003.
Buyya, R, Abramson, D. Giddy, J and Stockinger, H. “Economic Models for Resource Management and Scheduling in Grid Computing”, Journal of Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Grid computing special issue 14/13-15, 2002.
Buyya, R, Murshed, M., and Abramson, D. “A Deadline and Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling Task Farming Applications on Global Grids”, The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2002.
Abramson, D., Barak, A and Enticott, C. “Job Management in Grids of MOSIX Clusters”, 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, August 13 - 15, pp 36 – 42, 2003 Reno, Nevada, USA,
Buyya, R, Date, S., Mizuno-Matsumoto, Y., Venugopal, S and Abramson, D. “Composition of Distributed Brain Activity Analysis and its On-Demand Deployment on Global Grids, New Frontiers in High-Performance Computing: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003) Workshops (Dec. 17, 2003, Hyderabad, India), ISBN: 81-88901-05-9, Elite Publishing House, New Delhi, India.
Sudholt, W., Baldridge, K., Abramson, D., Enticott, C. and Garic, S. “Parameter Scan of an Effective Group Difference Pseudopotential Using Grid Computing”, New Generation Computing 22 (2004) 125-135.
Goscinski, W. and Abramson, D. “Distributed Ant: A System to Support Application Deployment in the Grid”, Grid 2004, November, 2004, Pittsburgh, PA.
Buyya, R., Abramson, D. and Venugopal, S. “The Grid Economy”, Special Issue on Grid Computing, Proceedings of the IEEE, Manish Parashar and Craig Lee (editors), Volume 93, Issue 3, 698-714pp, IEEE Press, New York, USA, March 2005.
Sudholt, W., Baldridge, K., Abramson, D., Enticott, C. and Garic, S., “Application of Grid computing to parameter sweeps and optimizations in molecular modeling”, 27-35. Also appeared in The International Conference on Computational Sciences, ICCS04, Krakow Poland, June 6 – 9, 2004.
Buyya, R., Murshed, M, Abramson, D. and Venugopal, S. “Scheduling Parameter Sweep Applications on Global Grids: A Deadline and Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimisation Algorithm”, International Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE), Volume 35, Issue 5, pp 491 - 512, Wiley Press, New York, USA, April 25, 2005
Tan, J, Abramson, D. and Enticott, C. “Bridging Organizational Network Boundaries on the Grid”, IEEE Grid 2005, Seattle, Nov 2005.
Goscinski, W and Abramson, D. “Legacy Application Deployment over Heterogeneous Grids using Distributed Ant”, IEEE Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Melbourne, Dec 2005.
Abramson, D. “Applications Development for the Computational Grid”, The Eighth Asia Pacific Web Conference, Harbin, China, Invited Key Note Address, 16th – 18th Jan, 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3841 / 2006, pp. 1 – 12, ISSN: 0302-9743. © Springer-Verlag.
Zheng, C., Abramson, D., Arzberger, P., Ayyub, S., Enticott, C., Garic, S., Katz, M., Kwak, J., Lee, B. S., Papadopoulos, P., Phatanapherom, S., Sriprayoonsakul, S., Tanaka, Y., Tanimura, Y., Tatebe, O., Uthayopas, P. “The PRAGMA Testbed: Building a Multi-Application International Grid”, Workshop on Grid Testbeds, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 16-19 May 2006, Singapore.
Abramson, D., Lynch, A., Takemiya, H., Tanimura, Y., Date, S., Nakamura, H., Jeong, K., Zhu, J., Lu, Z., Lee, H., Wang, C., Shih, H., Molina, T., Baldridge, K., Li, W. and Arzberger, P. “Deploying Scientific Applications to the PRAGMA Grid Testbed: Strategies and Lessons”, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 16-19 May 2006, Singapore.
Lee, B., Tang, M., Zhang, J., Soon, O. Y., Zheng, C., Arzberger, P., Abramson, D. “Analysis of Jobs in a Multi-Organizational Grid Test-bed”, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 16-19 May 2006, Singapore.
Goscinski, W. and Abramson, D. “Motor: A Virtual Machine for High Performance Computing”, HPDC 06, Paris 2006.
Kurniawan, D. and Abramson, D. “Worqbench: an Integrated Framework for e-Science Application Development”, 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. Dec. 4- 6, 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ayyub, S., Abramson, D., Enticott, C., Garic, S., Tan, J. “Executing Large Parameter Sweep Applications on a Multi-VO Testbed”, CCGrid 2007, Brazil.
Kurniawan, D. and Abramson, D. “A WSRF-Compliant Debugger for Grid Applications”, 21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007) March 26-30, 2007, Long Beach, California USA
Lynch, A. H., D. Abramson, K. J. Beringer, and P. Uotila (2007), Influence of savanna fire on Australian monsoon season precipitation and circulation as simulated using a distributed computing environment, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L20801, doi:10.1029/2007GL030879.
Zheng C, Katz M, Papadopoulos P, Abramson D, Ayyub S, Enticott C, Garic S, Goscinski W, Arzberger P, Lee B S, Phatanapherom S, Sriprayoonsakul S, Uthayopas P, Tanaka Y, Tanimura Y, Tatebe O. “Lessons Learned Through Driving Science Applications in the PRAGMA Grid.” Int. J. Web and Grid Services, Vol.3, No.3, pp 287- 312. 2007.
Ayyub, S. and Abramson, D. “GridRod - A Service Oriented Dynamic Runtime Scheduler for Grid Workflows”. 21st ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, June 16-20, 2007, Seattle.
Kurniawan, D and Abramson, D, “An Integrated Grid Development Environment in Eclipse”, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, (Bangalore, India, 10-13 December 2007.
Buckle, A., Abramson, D., Amin, A., Bate, M., Beitz A., Enticott, C., Faux, N., Mahmood, K., Swift, M.., Treloar, A. and Whisstock. J, “eResearch Solutions for High Throughput Structural Biology”, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, (Bangalore, India, 10-13 December 2007.

Active Sheets References

	Abstract	Paper
Abramson, D., Roe, P., Kotler L and Mather, D., “ActiveSheets: Super-Computing with Spreadsheets”. 2001 High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC'01), Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, April 22-26, 2001, pp 110 – 115, Seattle, Washington (USA).
Abramson, D., Dongarra, J., Meek, E., Roe, P and Shi, Z., “Simplified Grid Computing through Spreadsheets and NetSolve”, Omiya Sonic City, Saitama, Tokyo, Japan, July 20-22, 2004, HPC Asia 2004.

Nimrod/O References

	Abstract	Paper
Abramson, D, Lewis, A. and Peachy, T. “Case Studies in Automatic Design Optimisation using the P-BFGS Algorithm”, 2001 High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC'01), Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, April 22-26, 2001, pp 104 – 109, Seattle, Washington (USA).
Abramson, D, Lewis, A. and Peachy, T., "Nimrod/O: A Tool for Automatic Design Optimization", The 4th International Conference on Algorithms & Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2000), Hong Kong, 11 - 13 December 2000.
Abramson D, Lewis A, Peachey T, Fletcher, C., “An Automatic Design Optimization Tool and its Application to Computational Fluid Dynamics”, SuperComputing 2001, Denver, Nov 2001.
Lewis, A., Abramson, D. and Peachey, T. “An Evolutionary Programming Algorithm for Automatic Engineering Design, PPAM 2003, Fifth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Czestochowa, Poland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3019 / 2004, pp. 586 - 594, ISBN: 3-540-21946-3, September 7-10, 2003. . © Springer-Verlag.
Peachey, T., Abramson, D., Lewis, A., Kurniawan, D. and Jones, R. “Optimization using Nimrod/O and its Application to Robust Mechanical Design”, PPAM 2003, Fifth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Czestochowa, Poland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3019 / 2004, pp. 730 – 737, ISBN: 3-540-21946-3, September 7-10, 2003. © Springer-Verlag.
Lewis, A. and Abramson, D. “An Evolutionary Programming Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimisation”, Special Session on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2003, CEC2003, Canberra, Dec 8 – 12, 2003.
Lewis, A., Abramson, D. and Peachey, T. “RSCS: A Parallel Simplex Algorithm for the Nimrod/O Optimization Toolset”, International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, In association with HeteroPar’04, July 5th – 8th 2004, University College Cork, Ireland.
Peachey, T., Abramson, D. and Lewis, A. “Model Optimization and Parameter Estimation with Nimrod/O”,The International Conference on Computational Science, May 28-31, 2006, University of Reading, UK
Peachey, T. and Enticott, C. "Determination of the Best Constant in an Inequality of Hardy, Littlewood and Polya",
Abramson, D., Amoreira, C., Baldridge, K., Berstis, L, Kondrick, C., Peachey, T. “A Flexible Framework for Protein-Ligand Docking”, 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. Dec. 4- 6, 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Lewis, A. Abramson, D. and Peachey, T., "RSCS: A Parallel Simplex Algorithm for the Nimrod/O Optimization Toolset", Scientific Programming, 14(1), 1-11 (2006). IOS Press.

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