• A cloud-based enhanced differential evolution algorithm for parameter estimation problems in computational systems biology 

      Teijeiro, Diego; Pardo, Xoán C.; Penas, David R.; González, Patricia; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2017)
      [Abstract] Metaheuristics are gaining increasing recognition in many research areas, computational systems biology among them. Recent advances in metaheuristics can be helpful in locating the vicinity of the global solution ...
    • Analysis of I/O Performance on an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute and High I/O Platform 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; González-Domínguez, Jorge; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer Netherlands, 2013-12)
      [Abstract] Cloud computing is currently being explored by the scientific community to assess its suitability for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. In this novel paradigm, compute and storage resources, as well ...
    • Assessment, Design and Implementation of a Private Cloud for MapReduce Applications 

      Salgueiro, M.; González, Patricia; Fernández Pena, Tomás; Cabaleiro, José Carlos (Stowarzyszenie Komputerowej Nauki o Materialach i Inzynierii Powierzchni,Association of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering, 2014)
      [Abstract] Scientific computation and data intensive analyses are ever more frequent. On the one hand, the MapReduce programming model has gained a lot of attention for its applicability in large parallel data analyses and ...
    • Big Data-Oriented PaaS Architecture with Disk-as-a-Resource Capability and Container-Based Virtualization 

      López Cacheiro, Javier; Expósito, Roberto R.; Touriño, Juan; Enes, Jonatan (Springer Netherlands, 2018-12)
      [Abstract] With the increasing adoption of Big Data technologies as basic tools for the ongoing Digital Transformation, there is a high demand for data-intensive applications. In order to efficiently execute such applications, ...
    • Evaluation of messaging middleware for high-performance cloud computing 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer U K, 2013-12)
      [Abstract] Cloud computing is posing several challenges, such as security, fault tolerance, access interface singularity, and network constraints, both in terms of latency and bandwidth. In this scenario, the performance ...
    • Flame-MR: An event-driven architecture for MapReduce applications 

      Veiga, Jorge; Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Touriño, Juan (Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 2016)
      [Abstract] Nowadays, many organizations analyze their data with the MapReduce paradigm, most of them using the popular Apache Hadoop framework. As the data size managed by MapReduce applications is steadily increasing, the ...
    • Performance analysis of HPC applications in the cloud 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 2013-01)
      [Abstract] The scalability of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications depends heavily on the efficient support of network communications in virtualized environments. However, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers ...
    • Performance Evaluation of Data-Intensive Computing Applications on a Public IaaS Cloud 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Ramos Garea, Sabela; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      [Abstract] The advent of cloud computing technologies, which dynamically provide on-demand access to computational resources over the Internet, is offering new possibilities to many scientists and researchers. Nowadays, ...
    • Running scientific codes on amazon EC2: a performance analysis of five high-end instances 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Pardo, Xoán C.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2013)
      [Abstract] Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a well-known public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider whose Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) o ering includes some instances, known as cluster instances, aimed at High-Performance ...
    • Spark Implementation of the Enhanced Scatter Search Metaheuristic: Methodology and Assessment 

      Pardo, Xoán C.; Argüeso-Alejandro, Pablo; González, Patricia; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier BV, 2020-12)
      [Abstract] Optimization problems arise nowadays in all disciplines, not only in the scientific area but also in the field of engineering or economics, and in many others. Currently, challenging optimization problems require ...
    • Towards cloud-based parallel metaheuristics: A case study in computational biology with Differential Evolution and Spark 

      Teijeiro, Diego; Pardo, Xoán C.; González, Patricia; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Sage Publications Ltd., 2016-11-28)
      [Abstract] Many key problems in science and engineering can be formulated and solved using global optimization techniques. In the particular case of computational biology, the development of dynamic (kinetic) models is ...