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Virtual EZ Grid: A Volunteer Computing Infrastructure for Scientific Medical Applications

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Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2010)

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This paper presents the Virtual EZ Grid project, based on the XtremWeb-CH (XWCH) volunteer computing platform. The goal of the project is to introduce a flexible distributed computing system, with (i) a non-trivial number of computing resources infrastructure from various institutes, (ii) a stable platform that manages these computing resources and provides advanced interfaces for applications, and (iii) a set of applications that take benefit of the platform. This paper concentrates on the application support of the new version of XWCH, and describes how a medical image application MedGIFT utilises it.

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  1. University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Mohamed Ben Belgacem

  2. University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Hepia Geneva, Switzerland

    Nabil Abdennadher & Marko Niinimaki

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Elettronica e Sistemistica (DEIS), Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Bellavista

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, 974, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Ruay-Shiung Chang

  3. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, 260, Ilan, Taiwan , Republic of China

    Han-Chieh Chao

  4. National Dong Hwa University, 974, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Shin-Feng Lin

  5. Faculty of Science Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, 1098, Amsterdam, XG, The Netherlands

    Peter M. A. Sloot

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Belgacem, M.B., Abdennadher, N., Niinimaki, M. (2010). Virtual EZ Grid: A Volunteer Computing Infrastructure for Scientific Medical Applications. In: Bellavista, P., Chang, RS., Chao, HC., Lin, SF., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing. GPC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13067-0_41

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