Recent Papers

Conference Papers

R. Biswas, M. Frumkin, W. Smith, R. Van der Wijngaart. Tools and Techniques for Measuring and Improving Grid Performance. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Computing, Dec 28-31, 2002, Kolkata, India. PDF.

W. Smith. A System for Monitoring and Management of Computational Grids. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2002. PDF.

W. Smith, D. Gunter, D. Quesnel. An XML-Based Protocol for Distributed Event Services. In Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, pp. 1668-1674, 2001. PDF.

W. Smith, A. Waheed, D. Meyers, J. Yan. An Evaluation of Alternative Designs for a Grid Information Service. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing. August, 2000. PDF.

W. Smith, I. Foster, and V. Taylor. Scheduling with Advanced Reservations. Proceedings of the 2000 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. May, 2000. PDF.

A. Waheed, W. Smith, J. George, and J. Yan. An Infrastructure for Monitoring and Management in Computational Grids. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers. March, 2000. PDF.

G. von Laszewski, I. Foster, J. Gawor, W. Smith, and S. Tuecke. CoG Kits: A Bridge between Commodity Distributed Computing and High-Performance Grids. In Proceedings of the 2000 ACM Java Grande Conference, 2000. PS. PDF.

Smith, V. Taylor, and I. Foster. Using Run-Time Predictions to Estimate Queue Wait Times and Improve Scheduler Performance. In Proceedings of the IPPS/SPDP '9 Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, 1999. PDF.

W. Smith, and P. Walker. Numerical Relativity in a Distributed Environment. In Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. March, 1999. PDF.

Smith, I. Foster, and V. Taylor. Predicting Application Run Times Using Historical Information. In Proceedings of the IPPS/SPDP '98 Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, 1998. PDF.

Czajkowski, I. Foster, C. Kesselman, S. Martin, W. Smith, and S. Tuecke. A Resource Management Architecture for Metacomputing Systems. In Proceedings of the IPPS/SPDP '98 Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, 1998. PDF.

W. Smith, and S. Tuecke. A Directory Service for Configuring High-Performance Distributed Computations. In The 6th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing. August 1997. PDF.

I. Foster, J. Geisler, B. Nickless, W. Smith, and S. Tuecke. Software Infrastructure for the High-Performance Distributed Computing Environment. In The 5th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, August 1996. PDF

Journal Papers

W. Smith, A. Waheed, D. Meyers, J. Yan. An Evaluation of Alternative Designs for a Grid Information Service. Cluster Computing, 4(1):29-37, 2001.

S. Chapin, W. Cirne, D. Feitelson, J. Jones, S. Leutenegger, U. Schwiegelshohn, W. Smith, and D. Talby. Benchmarks and Standards for the Evaluation of Parallel Job Schedulers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1659:67-90, 1999.

W. Smith, V. Taylor, and I. Foster. Using Run-Time Predictions to Estimate Queue Wait Times and Improve Scheduler Performance. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1659:202-219, 1999.

I. Foster, J. Geisler, B. Nickless, W. Smith, and S. Tuecke. Software infrastructure for the I-WAY metacomputing experiment. Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 10(7):567-581, 1998.

W. Smith, I. Foster, and V. Taylor. Predicting Application Run Times Using Historical Information. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1459:122-142, 1998.

S. Martin, W. Smith, and S. Tuecke. A Resource Management Architecture for Metacomputing Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1459:62-82, 1998.

R. Overbeek, N. Larsen, W. Smith, N. Maltsev, and E. Selkov. Representation of function: the next step. Gene: An International Journal on Genes and Genomes. 191(1997) GC1-GC9.

Technical Reports

W. Smith, P. Wong. "Resource Selection Using Execution and Queue Wait Time Predictions." NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, NASA Ames Research Center NAS-02-003, July, 2002. PDF.

W. Smith. "A Framework for Control and Observation in Distributed Environments. " NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, NASA Ames Research Center NAS-01-006, July, 2001. PDF.

Grid Forum Documents

W. Smith, D. Gunter, D. Quesnel. "A Simple XML Producer-Consumer Protocol." Global Grid Forum Working Document GWD-Perf-8-2, July, 2001. PDF.

W. Smith, D. Gunter. "Simple LDAP Schemas for Grid Monitoring." Global Grid Forum Working Document GWD-Perf-13-1, July, 2001. PDF .

B. Tierney, R. Audt, D. Gunter, W. Smith, V. Taylor, R. Wolski, M. Swany. "White Paper: A Grid Monitoring Service Architecture." Global Grid Forum Working Document GWD-Perf-6-1, February, 2001. PDF

R. Aydt, D. Gunter, D. Quesnel, W. Smith, V. Taylor. "A Simple Case Study of a Grid Performance System." Global Grid Forum Working Document GWD-Perf-9-1, February, 2001. PDF

Obsolete Grid Forum Documents

W. Smith, D. Gunter, D. Quesnel. "A Simple XML Producer-Consumer Protocol." Global Grid Forum Working Document GWD-Perf-8-1, February, 2001. PDF.

W. Smith, D. Gunter. "A Grid Information Service Schema for Grid Events." Global Grid Forum Working Document GWD-Perf-2-1, October 2000. PDF

D. Gunter, W. Smith. "Schemas for Grid Performance Events." Global Grid Forum Working Document GWD-Perf-1-1, October 2000. PDF