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Ian Foster
Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory
Publications - 949
Citations - 99388
Ian Foster is an academic researcher from Argonne National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Grid computing & Grid. The author has an hindex of 131, co-authored 891 publications receiving 94811 citations. Previous affiliations of Ian Foster include University of Southern California & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare and contrast cloud computing with grid computing from various angles and give insights into the essential characteristics of both the two technologies, and compare the advantages of grid computing and cloud computing.
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XSEDE: Accelerating Scientific Discovery
John Towns,Timothy M. Cockerill,Maytal Dahan,Ian Foster,Kelly Gaither,Andrew S. Grimshaw,Victor Hazlewood,Scott Lathrop,David Lifka,Gregory D. Peterson,Ralph Roskies,J. Ray Scott,Nancy Wilkins-Diehr +12 more
TL;DR: XSEDE's integrated, comprehensive suite of advanced digital services federates with other high-end facilities and with campus-based resources, serving as the foundation for a national e-science infrastructure ecosystem.
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Grid services for distributed system integration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the nature of the services that respond to protocol messages and propose a set of services that can be aggregated in various ways to meet the needs of virtual organizations, which themselves can be defined by the services they operate and share.
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Grid information services for distributed resource sharing
TL;DR: This work presents an information services architecture that addresses performance, security, scalability, and robustness requirements of Grid software infrastructure and has been implemented as MDS-2, which forms part of the Globus Grid toolkit and has be widely deployed and applied.
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Globus toolkit version 4: software for service-oriented systems
TL;DR: The principal characteristics of the latest release, the Web services-based GT4, which provides significant improvements over previous releases in terms of robustness, performance, usability, documentation, standards compliance, and functionality are summarized.