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Ninf Papers in English
Design and implementation of Flexible, Robust and Efficient Grid-enabled Hybrid QM/MD Simulation Yoshio Tanaka, Hiroshi Takemiya, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Sekiguchi Computational Methods in Science and Technology,2006
Design and Implementation of Distributed Task Sequencing on GridRPC Yusuke Tanimura, Hidemoto Nakada, Yoshio Tanaka, Satoshi Sekiguchi Proc. of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology,2006 [ Abstact / Paper ]
Primary Study of A Task Farming API over The GridRPC Framework Yusuke Tanimura, Hidemoto Nakada, Yoshio Tanaka, Satoshi Sekiguchi Eighth International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region, pp.339-345,2005 [ Abstact / Paper / Slide ]
Speed-up Techniques for Computation of Markov Chain Model to Find an Optimal Batting Order Kiyoshi Osawa, Kenji Osawa Eighth International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region, pp.315-322,2005 [ Abstact / Paper ]
A Case Study in Running a Parallel Branch and Bound Application on the Grid Kento Aida, Tomotaka Osumi Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2005 Workshops) , pp.164-173,2005
Design, implementation and performance evaluation of GridRPC programming middleware for a large-scale computational Grid Yoshio Tanaka, Hiroshi Takemiya, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Sekiguchi Proceeding of 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing.,2004 [ Abstact / Paper ]
The Design and implementation of a Fault-Tolerant RPC system: Ninf-C Hidemoto Nakada, Yoshio Tanaka, Satoshi Matsuoka, Satoshi Sekiguchi Proceedings of HPC ASIA 2004, pp.9-18,2004 [ Abstact / Paper ]
Relis-G: Remote Library Install System for Computational Grids Hiromasa watanabe, Hiroki Honda, Toshitsugu Yuba, Yoshio Tanaka, Mitsuhisa Sato Proceedings of HPC ASIA 2004, pp.44-53,2004
Constructing Grid Applications using Standard Grid Middleware Hiroshi Takemiya, Kazuyuki Shudo, Yoshio Tanaka, Satoshi Sekiguchi Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 1, No. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.117-131,2004 [ Abstact ]
Parallelization of Phylogenetic Tree Inference using Grid Technologies Yo Yamamoto, Hidemoto Nakada, Hidetoshi Shimodaira, Satoshi Matsuoka LSGrid 2004,2004 [ Abstact / Paper / Slide ]
Ninf-G: A Reference Implementation of RPC-based Programming Middleware for Grid Computing Yoshio Tanaka, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Toyotaro Suzumura, Satoshi Matsuoka Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.41-51,2003 [ Abstact ]
Distributed Computing with Hierarchical Master-worker Paradigm for Parallel Branch and Bound Algorithm Kento Aida, Wataru Natsume, Yoshiaki Futakata Proceedings oft the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2003),, pp.156-163,2003
Overview of GridRPC: A Remote Procedure Call API for Grid Computing Keith Seymour, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Matsuoka, Jack Dongarra, Craig Lee and Henri Casanova Grid Computing - Grid 2002, LNCS 2536, pp.274-278, November, 2002 [Abstract/ Paper in pdf/ Slides(ppt) ]
The Ninf Portal: An Automatic Generation Tool for the Grid Portals Toyotaro Suzumura, Hidemoto Nakada, Masayuki Saito, Satoshi Matsuoka, Yoshio Tanaka and Satoshi Sekiguchi Proceeding of Java Grande 2002, pp.1--7, November, 2002. [Abstract/ Paper in pdf/ Slides(ppt) ]
Evaluating Web Services Based Implementations of GridRPC Satoshi Shirasuna, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Matsuoka and Satoshi Sekiguchi Proceeding of HPDC11, July, 2002. [Abstract/ Paper in pdf/ Slides(ppt) ]
High-performance Parallel and Distributed Computing for the BMI Eigenvalue Problem Kento Aida and Yoshiaki Futakata and Shinji Hara Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2002), 2002. [Abstract/ Paper in pdf/ Slides(ppt) ]
High Performance Grid Computing for Optimization Problems Kento Aida, Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Masakazu Kojima, Shinji Hara, Katsuki Fujisawa, Yoshiaki Futakata Proceedings of the New Trends in Optimization and Computational Algorithms, pp.83-84, 2001. [Abstract/ Paper in pdf/ Slides(ppt) ]
A Jini-based Computing Portal System Toyotaro Suzumura, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidemoto Nakada Proceeding of SC2001, Nov., 2001. [Abstract/ Paper in pdf/ Slides(ppt) ]
A Study of Deadline Scheduling for Client-Server Systems on the Computational Grid A. Takefusa, H. Casanova, S. Matsuoka, and F. Berman Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10), pp. 406-415, 2001. [Abstract/ Paper in pdf]
OmniRPC: a Grid RPC facility for Cluster and Global Computing in OpenMP Mitsuhisa Sato, Yoshio Tanaka, Motonori Hirano, Satoshi Sekiguchi Proc. of WOMPAT 2001 [Abstract/ Paper in pdf]
GridRPC Tutorial Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Matsuoka, Mitsuhisa Sato,Satoshi Sekiguchi [HTML]
Design issues of Network Enabled Server Systems for the Grid Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidemoto Nakada, Mitsuhisa Sato, Satoshi Sekiguchi Grid Computing -- GRID 2000, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1971, pp.4-17 [Abstract/ Paper in ps(gzip)/ Paper in pdf]
Ninf Project Kento Aida, Atsuko Takefusa, Hirotaka Ogawa, Osamu Tatebe, Hidemoto Nakada, Hiromitsu Takagi, Yoshio Tanaka, Satoshi Matsuoka, Mitsuhisa Sato, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Umpei Nagashima, APAN Conference 2000, Aug. 2000. [Slide]
Performance Evaluation of a Firewall-compliant Globus-based Wide-area Cluster System Y. Tanaka, M. Hirano, M. Sato, H. Nakada and S. Sekiguchi, 9th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2000), pp.121-128, (2000). [Abstract/ Paper in ps(gzip)/ Paper in pdf]
Are Global Computing Systems Useful? - Comparison of Client-Server Global Computing Systems Ninf, NetSolve versus CORBA Toyotaro Suzumura, Takayuki Nakagawa, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Sekiguchi Proc. of International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium [Abstract/ Paper in ps(gzip)/ Paper in pdf]
NetCFD: a Ninf CFD component for Global Computing, and its Java applet GUI Mitsuhisa Sato, Kazuhiro Kusano, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Sekiguchi and Satoshi Matsuoka Proc. of HPC Asia 2000, pp. 501-506. [Abstract/ Paper in pdf]
Resource Manager for Globus-based Wide-area Cluster Computing Y. Tanaka, M. Hirano, M. Sato, H. Nakada, and S. Sekiguchi 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cluster Computing (IWCC'99), pp.237-244 (1999). [Abstract/ Paper in ps(gzip)/ Paper in pdf]
Overview of a Performance Evaluation System for Global Computing Scheduling Algorithms Atsuko Takefusa, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidemoto Nakada, Kento Aida, Umpei Nagashima 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC8), pp. 97-104, 1999, Aug. [Abstract/ Paper in ps(gzip)/ Paper in pdf]
Design and Implementations of Ninf: towards a Global Computing Infrastructure Hidemoto Nakada, Mitsuhisa Sato, Satoshi Sekiguchi Future Generation Computing Systems, Metacomputing Issue, Vol.15, Issues 5-6, pp.649-658, 1999
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A Performance Evaluation Model for Scheduling in Global Computing Systems Kento Aida, Atsuko Takefusa, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Matsuoka, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Umpei Nagashima NASA Workshop on Performance-Engineered Information Systems [Slides(ppt)]
A Performance Evaluation Model for Effective Job Scheduling in Global Computing Systems Kento Aida, Atsuko Takefusa, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Matsuoka, Umpei Nagashima 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC7) [Paper in ps(compressed)/ Poster(ppt)]
Ninf Global Computing System - Architecture, Features, and Performance - (oral presentation) Hidemoto Nakada, Atsuko Takefusa, Hirotaka Ogawa, Kento Aida, Hiromitsu Takagi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Umpei Nagashima, Mitsuhisa Sato and Satoshi Sekiguchi HPCN Workshop on Distributed Computing [Slides(ppt)]
Utilizing the Metaserver Architecture in the Ninf Global Computing System Hidemoto Nakada, Hiromitsu Takagi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Umpei Nagashima, Mitsuhisa Sato, Satoshi Sekiguchi High-Performance Computing and Networking '98, LNCS 1401, pp.607-616. [Abstract/ Paper in ps (compressed)/Slides(ppt)]
Ninflet: a Migratable Parallel Objects Framework using Java Hiromitsu Takagi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Mitsuhisa Satoh, Umpei Nagashima ACM 1998 Workshop on Java for High-Performance Network Computing, pp.151-159 (1998) [Abstract/Paper in ps (compressed)]
Ninf and PM: Communication Libraries for Global Computing and High-performance Cluster Computing Mitsuhisa Sato, Hiroshi Tezuka, Atsushi Hori, Yutaka Ishikawa, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Matsuoka and Umpei Nagashima FGCS vol. 13 (1997/98), No. 4-5, March 1998. pp. 349-359
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Preliminary Evaluation of Scheduling in Ninf: a Global Computing System S. Matsuoka, H. Ogawa, A. Takefusa, H. Nakada, K. Aida, U.Nagashima, M. Sato, S. Sekiguchi International Workshop on Innovative Architectures '97, 1997 [Abstract /Paper(in ps)]
Multi-client LAN/WAN Performance Analysis of Ninf: a High-Performance Global Computing System. A. Takefusa, S. Matsuoka, H. Ogawa, H. Nakada, H. Takagi, M. Sato, S. Sekiguchi, U. Nagashima. Supercomputing '97, 1997. [Abstract/Paper(in ps)/ Paper(in HTML)/Slides]
Ninf: A Network based Information Library for a Global World-Wide Computing Infrastracture Mitsuhisa Sato, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Umpei Nagashima and Hiromitsu Takagi HPCN'97 (LNCS-1225), pp. 491-502", 1997" [Abstract/Paper(in ps, compressed)/Paper in pdf]
World-Wide Computing Infrastructure: Global and Local Partnership Satoshi Sekiguchi, Mitsuhisa Sato. IEEE The Second AIZU International Symposium on Parallel Algorithms/Architecture Synthesis, March 17-21, 1997, Fukushima Japan [Abstract/Paper(in ps)]
-- Ninf -- : Network base information library for globally high performance computing. Satoshi Sekiguchi, Mitsuhisa Sato, Hidemoto Nakada and Umpei Nagashima. Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and Applications (POOMA), 1996, Feb. [Paper/Slides]