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Adaptability of pregnant Merino ewes to the cold desert climate in Nevada by Rauw, W.M, Thain, D.S, Teglas, M.B, Wuliji, T, Sandstrom, M.A, Gomez-Raya, L

“…Grazing ability is difficult to record in animals under free-ranging conditions without sophisticated methods. Alternatively, grazing ability may be indirectly…”
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Adaptability of pregnant Merino ewes to the cold desert climate in Nevada1 by Rauw, W. M., Thain, D. S., Teglas, M. B., Wuliji, T., Sandstrom, M. A., Gomez-Raya, L.

“…Grazing ability is difficult to record in animals under free-ranging conditions without sophisticated methods. Alternatively, grazing ability may be indirectly…”
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value of DNA paternity identification in beef cattle: Examples from Nevada's free-range ranches by Gomez-Raya, L, Priest, K, Rauw, W.M, Okomo-Adhiambo, M, Thain, D, Bruce, B, Rink, A, Torell, R, Grellman, L, Narayanan, R, Beattie, C.W

“…The feasibility and economic value of DNA paternity identification were investigated and illustrated using Nevada beef cattle operations. A panel of 15…”
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The value of DNA paternity identification in beef cattle: Examples from Nevada's free-range ranches1 by Gomez-Raya, L., Priest, K., Rauw, W. M., Okomo-Adhiambo, M., Thain, D., Bruce, B., Rink, A., Torell, R., Grellman, L., Narayanan, R., Beattie, C. W.

“…The feasibility and economic value of DNA paternity identification were investigated and illustrated using Nevada beef cattle operations. A panel of 15…”
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Identity boxing: secure user-level containment for the grid by Thain, D.

“…Today, a public key infrastructure allows grid users to be identified with strong cryptographic credentials and and a descriptive, globally-unique name such as…”
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The Kangaroo approach to data movement on the Grid by Thain, D., Basney, J., Se-Chang Son, Livny, M.

“…Access to remote data is one of the principal challenges of Grid computing. While performing I/O, Grid applications must be prepared for server crashes,…”
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Pipeline and batch sharing in grid workloads by Thain, D., Bent, J., Arpaci-Dusseau, A.C., Arpaci-Dusseau, R.H., Livny, M.

“…We present a study of six batch-pipeline scientific workloads that are candidates for execution on computational grids. Whereas other studies focus on the…”
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Distributed computing in practice: the Condor experience by Thain, Douglas, Tannenbaum, Todd, Livny, Miron

“…Since 1984, the Condor project has enabled ordinary users to do extraordinary computing. Today, the project continues to explore the social and technical…”
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The Ethernet approach to grid computing by Thain, D., Livny, M.

“…Despite many competitors, Ethernet became the dominant protocol for local area networking due to its simplicity, robustness, and efficiency in wide variety of…”
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Error scope on a computational grid: theory and practice by Thain, D., Livny, M.

“…Error propagation is a central problem in grid computing. We re-learned this while adding a Java feature to the Condor computational grid. Our initial…”
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Generosity and gluttony in GEMS: grid enabled molecular simulations by Wozniak, J.M., Brenner, P., Thain, D., Striegel, A., Izaguirre, J.A.

“…Biomolecular simulations produce more output data than can be managed effectively by traditional computing systems. Researchers need distributed systems that…”
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Bypass: a tool for building split execution systems by Thain, D., Livny, M.

“…Split execution is a common model for providing a friendly environment on a foreign machine. In this model, a remotely executing process sends some or all of…”
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All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data-Intensive Computing on Campus Grids by Moretti, C., Hoang Bui, Hollingsworth, K., Rich, B., Flynn, P., Thain, D.

“…Today, campus grids provide users with easy access to thousands of CPUs. However, it is not always easy for nonexpert users to harness these systems…”
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A Framework for Scalable Genome Assembly on Clusters, Clouds, and Grids by Moretti, C., Thrasher, A., Li Yu, Olson, M., Emrich, S., Thain, D.

“…Bioinformatics researchers need efficient means to process large collections of genomic sequence data. One application of interest, genome assembly, has great…”
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Operating System Support for Space Allocation in Grid Storage Systems by Thain, D.

“…Shared temporary storage space is often the constraining resource for clusters that serve as execution nodes in wide-area distributed systems. At least one…”
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A Comparison and Critique of Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus by Sempolinski, P, Thain, D

“…Eucalyptus, Open Nebula and Nimbus are three major open-source cloud-computing software platforms. The overall function of these systems is to manage the…”
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Caveat emptor: making grid services dependable from the client side by Livny, M., Thain, D.

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Making the best of a bad situation: Prioritized storage management in GEMS by Wozniak, J.M., Brenner, P., Thain, D., Striegel, A., Izaguirre, J.A.

“…As distributed storage systems grow, the response time between the occurrence of a fault, detection, and repair becomes significant. Systems built on shared…”
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Scheduling Grid workloads on multicore clusters to minimize energy and maximize performance by Lammie, M., Brenner, P., Thain, D.

“…Energy is a significant and growing component of the cost of running a large computing facility. A grid workload consisting of millions of jobs running on…”
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Biomolecular committor probability calculation enabled by processing in network storage by Brenner, P., Wozniak, J.M., Thain, D., Striegel, A., Peng, J.W., Izaguirre, J.A.

“…Computationally complex and data intensive atomic scale biomolecular simulation is enabled via processing in network storage (PINS): a novel distributed system…”
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