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Results from and progress on the development of a Data Intensive and Network Aware (DIANA) Scheduling engine, primarily for data intensive sciences such as physics analysis, are described. Scientific analysis tasks can involve thousands of…
In our former works we have made serious efforts to improve the performance of medical image analysis methods with using ensemble-based systems. In this paper, we present a novel hardware-based solution for the efficient adoption of our…
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The emergence of "big data" offers unprecedented opportunities for not only accelerating scientific advances but also enabling new modes of discovery. Scientific progress in many disciplines is increasingly enabled by our ability to examine…