With the advent of virtualization and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), the broader scientific computing community is considering the use of clouds for their technical computing needs. This is due to the relative scalability, ease of use, advanced user environment customization abilities clouds provide, as well as many novel computing paradigms available for data-intensive applications. Howev...

The phytohormone auxin regulates virtually every aspect of plant development. The hormone directly mediates the interaction between the two members of the auxin coreceptor complex, a TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE (TIR1)/AUXIN SIGNALING F-BOX protein and an AUXIN/INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID (Aux/IAA) transcriptional repressor. To learn more about the interaction between these proteins, a mutant screen w...

Cloud computing is a most fascinated technology that is being utilized by IT companies to reduce their infrastructure setup cost by outsourcing data and computation on demand. Cloud computing offer services in three basic models such as SaaS, PaaS and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Where IaaS is one of the fundamental cloud service model in which cloud provider offers Virtual Machines (VMs...

Organizations and enterprises have been outsourcing their computation, storage, and workflows to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) based cloud platforms. The heterogeneity and high diversity of IaaS cloud environment demand a comprehensive and finegrained access control mechanism, in order to meet dynamic, extensible, and highly configurable security requirements of these cloud consumers. Howe...

The phytohormone auxin regulates virtually every aspect of plant development. The hormone directly mediates the interaction between the two members of the auxin coreceptor complex, a TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE (TIR1)/AUXIN SIGNALING F-BOX protein and an AUXIN/INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID (Aux/IAA) transcriptional repressor. To learn more about the interaction between these proteins, a mutant screen w...

A prominent type of cloud service is the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), which delivers, on-demand, computing resources in the form of virtual machines (VMs) satisfying user needs. In such systems, penalties may be applied if the defined quality level of service level agreement (SLA) is not satisfied. Therefore, high availability is a critical requirement of these systems. A strategy to pro...

For Cloud based services to support enterprise class production workloads, Mainframe like predictable performance is essential. However, the scale, complexity, and inherent resource sharing across workloads make the Cloud management for predictable performance difficult. As a first step towards designing Cloud based systems that achieve such performance and realize the service level objectives,...