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The increasing availability of cloud computing services for science has changed the way scientific code can be developed, deployed, and run. Many modern scientific workflows are capable of running on cloud computing resources. Consequently,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Peter Vaillancourt , Bennett Wineholt , Brandon Barker , Plato Deliyannis , Jackie Zheng , Akshay Suresh , Adam Brazier , Rich Knepper , Rich Wolski

The significant carbon footprint of the ICT sector calls for methodologies to contain carbon emissions of running software. This article proposes a novel framework for implementing, configuring and assessing carbon-aware interactive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Stefano Forti , Jacopo Soldani , Antonio Brogi

The proliferation of software and AI comes with a hidden risk: its growing energy and carbon footprint. As concerns regarding environmental sustainability come to the forefront, understanding and optimizing how software impacts the…

Scientific workflows are a cornerstone of modern scientific computing. They are used to describe complex computational applications that require efficient and robust management of large volumes of data, which are typically stored/processed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Loïc Pottier , Tainã Coleman , Ewa Deelman , Henri Casanova

High-Performance Computing (HPC) has recently entered the Exascale era, and considerable efforts are being made to fully harness this potential power for large-scale applications, such as cutting-edge generative AI (training and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Roblex Nana Tchakoute , Claude Tadonki

Science reproducibility is a cornerstone feature in scientific workflows. In most cases, this has been implemented as a way to exactly reproduce the computational steps taken to reach the final results. While these steps are often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Karan Vahi , Mats Rynge , George Papadimitriou , Duncan A. Brown , Rajiv Mayani , Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Ewa Deelman , Anirban Mandal , Eric Lyons , Michael Zink

Scientific workflows have become essential for orchestrating complex computational processes across distributed resources, managing large datasets, and ensuring reproducibility in modern research. The Workflows Community Summit 2025, held…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Irene Bonati , Silvina Caino-Lores , Tainã Coleman , Sagar Dolas , Sandro Fiore , Venkatesh Kannan , Marco Verdicchio , Sean R. Wilkinson , Rafael Ferreira da Silva

To meet the increasing demand for cloud computing services, the scale and number of data centers keeps increasing worldwide. This growth comes at the cost of increased electricity consumption, which directly correlates to CO2 emissions, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Matteo Zanotto , Leonardo Vicentini , Redi Vreto , Francesco Lumpp , Diego Braga , Sandro Fiore

Climate change due to increasing carbon emissions by human activities has been identified as one of the most critical threat to Earth. Carbon neutralization, as a key approach to reverse climate change, has triggered the development of new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chien-Sheng Yang , Chien-Chun Huang-Fu , I-Kang Fu

Workflows are prevalent in today's computing infrastructures. The workflow model support various different domains, from machine learning to finance and from astronomy to chemistry. Different Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements and other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Laurens Versluis , Alexandru Iosup

The use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in commercial and consumer IT applications is becoming popular. They need the ability to gain rapid and scalable access to high-end computing capabilities. Cloud computing promises to deliver such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Saurabh Kumar Garg , Chee Shin Yeo , Arun Anandasivam , Rajkumar Buyya

Scientific workflows are pipelines of interdependent tasks. They are increasingly executed on shared Kubernetes clusters via workflow engines such as Nextflow. Their energy consumption matters for both cost and sustainability. It is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Philipp Thamm , Somayeh Mohammadi , Kathleen West , Knut Reinert , Lauritz Thamsen , Ulf Leser

The collaborative efforts of large communities in science experiments, often comprising thousands of global members, reflect a monumental commitment to exploration and discovery. Recently, advanced and complex data processing has gained…

With recent increasing computational and data requirements of scientific applications, the use of large clustered systems as well as distributed resources is inevitable. Although executing large applications in these environments brings…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-30 Alexandru Costan , Florin Pop , Corina Stratan , Ciprian Dobre , Catalin Leordeanu , Valentin Cristea

The importance of workflows is highlighted by the fact that they have underpinned some of the most significant discoveries of the past decades. Many of these workflows have significant computational, storage, and communication demands, and…

Scientific workflows are powerful tools for management of scalable experiments, often composed of complex tasks running on distributed resources. Existing cyberinfrastructure provides components that can be utilized within repeatable…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Ilkay Altintas , Shweta Purawat , Daniel Crawl , Alok Singh , Kyle Marcus

Task graphs provide a simple way to describe scientific workflows (sets of tasks with dependencies) that can be executed on both HPC clusters and in the cloud. An important aspect of executing such graphs is the used scheduling algorithm.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Jakub Beránek , Stanislav Böhm , Vojtěch Cima

Scientific workflows are used to analyze large amounts of data. These workflows comprise numerous tasks, many of which are executed repeatedly, running the same custom program on different inputs. Users specify resource allocations for each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Fabian Lehmann , Jonathan Bader , Ninon De Mecquenem , Xing Wang , Vasilis Bountris , Florian Friederici , Ulf Leser , Lauritz Thamsen

Scientific applications in HPC environment are more com-plex and more data-intensive nowadays. Scientists usually rely on workflow system to manage the complexity: simply define multiple processing steps into a single script and let the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Dong Dai , Robert Ross , Dounia Khaldi , Yonghong Yan , Matthieu Dorier , Neda Tavakoli , Yong Chen

Deep learning applications at the network edge lead to a significant growth in AI-related carbon emissions, presenting a critical sustainability challenge. The existing edge computing frameworks optimize for latency and throughput, but they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan , Chuanyi Sun , Hailong Jiang