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most citedMiddleware Building Blocks for Workflow Systems

48 citations · 80 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

q-bio.QM2019

Extensible and Scalable Adaptive Sampling on Supercomputers

Eugen Hruska, Vivekanandan Balasubramanian, Hyungro Lee +2

The accurate sampling of protein dynamics is an ongoing challenge despite the utilization of High-Performance Computers (HPC) systems. Utilizing only "brute force" MD simulations r…

cs.SE2019★ 16 cited

RADICAL-Cybertools: Middleware Building Blocks for Scalable Science

Vivek Balasubramanian, Shantenu Jha, Andre Merzky +1

RADICAL-Cybertools (RCT) are a set of software systems that serve as middleware to develop efficient and effective tools for scientific computing. Specifically, RCT enable executin…

cs.DC2019★ 48 cited

Middleware Building Blocks for Workflow Systems

Matteo Turilli, Vivek Balasubramanian, Andre Merzky +2

This paper describes a building blocks approach to the design of scientific workflow systems. We discuss RADICAL-Cybertools as one implementation of the building blocks concept, sh…

cs.CE2018★ 16 cited

Adaptive Ensemble Biomolecular Simulations at Scale

Vivek Balasubramanian, Travis Jensen, Matteo Turilli +3

Recent advances in both theory and methods have created opportunities to simulate biomolecular processes more efficiently using adaptive ensemble simulations. Ensemble-based simula…

cs.DC2017

High-throughput Binding Affinity Calculations at Extreme Scales

Jumana Dakka, Matteo Turilli, David W Wright +5

Resistance to chemotherapy and molecularly targeted therapies is a major factor in limiting the effectiveness of cancer treatment. In many cases, resistance can be linked to geneti…

cs.DC2017

Harnessing the Power of Many: Extensible Toolkit for Scalable Ensemble Applications

Vivek Balasubramanian, Matteo Turilli, Weiming Hu +5

Many scientific problems require multiple distinct computational tasks to be executed in order to achieve a desired solution. We introduce the Ensemble Toolkit (EnTK) to address th…

cs.SE2016

Designing Workflow Systems Using Building Blocks

Matteo Turilli, Andre Merzky, Vivek Balasubramanian +2

We suggest there is a need for a fresh perspective on the design and development of workflow systems and argue for a building blocks approach. We outline a description of this appr…

cs.CE2016

ExTASY: Scalable and Flexible Coupling of MD Simulations and Advanced Sampling Techniques

Vivekanandan Balasubramanian, Iain Bethune, Ardita Shkurti +5

For many macromolecular systems the accurate sampling of the relevant regions on the potential energy surface cannot be obtained by a single, long Molecular Dynamics (MD) trajector…

cs.DC2016

Ensemble Toolkit: Scalable and Flexible Execution of Ensembles of Tasks

Vivekanandan Balasubramanian, Antons Treikalis, Ole Weidner +1

There are many science applications that require scalable task-level parallelism and support for flexible execution and coupling of ensembles of simulations. Most high-performance…