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Data Intensive Distributed Computing Group Publications

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Recent DIDC Papers: (all papers and talks are available in PDF format, talks are further down this page)

G. Jin, Control Transmission Pace ar IP Layer to Avoid Packet Drop In Proceeding of 2004 IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations & Management (IPOM 2004) October 11-13, 2004, Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China
G. Jin, Packet Drop Avoidance for High-speed Network Transmission Protocol In Proceeding of 2004 International Conference on Information Technology June 28 - July 1, 2004, London Metropolitan University, London, England, LBNL-53920
B. Tierney and J. Hollingsworth, "Instrumentation and Monitoring", Chapter 20, The Grid Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, 2nd Edition, Elsevier 2003
G. Jin, B. Tierney, System Capability Effects on Algorithms for Network Bandwidth Measurement , ( slices .PS ), Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference Oct. 27-29, 2003, Miami Beach, Florida, LBNL-48556
D. Gunter, B. Tierney, C. E. Tull, V. Virmani, On-Demand Grid Application Tuning and Debugging with the NetLogger Activation Service, 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2003), LBNL-52991

B. Lowekamp, B. Tierney, Les Cottrell, R. Hughes-Jones, T. Kielmann, M. Swany, Enabling Network Measurement Portability Through a Hierarchy of Characteristics , 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2003), LBNL-53013.

G. Jin, B. Tierney Netest: A Tool to Measure Maximum Burst Size, Available Bandwidth and Achievable Throughput, Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Information Technology Aug. 10-13, 2003, Newark, New Jersey, LBNL-48350.
D. Agarwal, J. M. González, G. Jin, B. Tierney An Infrastructure for Passive Network Monitoring of Application Data Streams , 2003 Passive and Active Measurement Workshop , San Diego, CA, April 2003, LBNL-51846.

D. Gunter, B. Tierney, NetLogger: A Toolkit for Distributed System Tuning and Debugging, Proceedings of The 8th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management March 24-28, 2003, Colorado Springs, CO, LBNL-51276
A. Antony, J. Blom, C. de Laat, J. Lee and W. Sjouw, Microscopic Examination of TCP Flows over Transatlantic Links, Technical Report University of Amsterdam, October 2002. Submitted to a special issue of FGCS.

B. Tierney, Using NetLogger and Web100 for TCP Analysis , Invited Paper, First International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks , Geneva, Switzerland, Feb 2002, LBNL-51776.

D. Gunter, B. Tierney, K. Jackson, J. Lee, M. Stoufer, " Dynamic Monitoring of High-Performance Distributed Applications" , Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, HPDC-11 , July 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland, LBNL-49698.
J. Lee, D. Gunter, M. Stoufer, B. Tierney, "Monitoring Data Archives for Grid Environments", Proceeding of IEEE Supercomputing 2002 Conference, Nov. 2002, Baltimore, Maryland, LBNL-50216.
T. Dunigan, M. Mathis and B. Tierney, A TCP Tuning Daemon, Proceeding of IEEE Supercomputing 2002 Conference, Nov. 2002, Baltimore, Maryland, LBNL-51022.

B. Tierney and D. Gunter, NetLogger: A Toolkit for Distributed System Performance Tuning and Debugging , LBNL Tech Report LBNL-51276.

G. Jin, G. Yang, B. Crowley, D. Agarwal, "Network Characterization Service (NCS)", Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing HPDC-10, August 2001, LBNL-47892.
B. Tierney, D. Gunter, J. Lee, M. Stoufer, "Enabling Network-Aware Applications", Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10), August 2001, LBNL-47611.

J. Lee, D. Gunter, B. Tierney, W. Allock, J. Bester, J. Bresnahan, S. Tuecke, " Applied Techniques for High Bandwidth Data Transfers across Wide Area Networks", Proceedings of Computers in High Energy Physics 2001 (CHEP 2001), Beijing China, LBNL-46269.

B.Tierney, " TCP tuning Guide for Distributed Applications on Wide Area Networks", Usenix ;login Journal, Feb, 2001, p33. LBNL-45261.

W. Bethel, Tierney, B., Lee, J., Gunter, D., Lau, S., "Using High-Speed WANs and Network Data Caches to Enable Remote and Distributed Visualization", Proceeding of the IEEE Supercomputing 2000 Conference, Nov. 2000. LBNL-45365.

Tierney, B., B. Crowley, D. Gunter, J. Lee, M. Thompson, "A Monitoring Sensor Management System for Grid Environments", Cluster Computing Journal, vol 4-1, 2001, Baltzer Science Publications, LBNL-46847.

Tierney, B., W. Johnston, J. Lee, "A Cache-based Data Intensive Distributed Computing Architecture for Grid Applications", CERN School of Computing , Sept, 2000.

D. Gunter, B. Tierney, B. Crowley, M. Holding, J. Lee NetLogger: A Toolkit for Distributed System Performance Analysis Proceedings of the IEEE Mascots 2000 Conference (Mascots 2000), August 2000, LBNL-46269.

B. Tierney, B. Crowley, D. Gunter, M. Holding, J. Lee, M. Thompson A Monitoring Sensor Management System for Grid Environments Proceedings of the IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing conference ( HPDC-9 ), August 2000, LBNL-45260.

Tierney, B., Johnston, W., Lee, J., Thompson, M., "A Data Intensive Distributed Computing Architecture for Grid Applications", Future Generation Computer Systems (an Elsevier Journal), vol 16, #5, April 2000, pp 473-481.

Tierney, B., Gunter, D., Becla, J., Jacobsen, B., Quarrie, D., "Using NetLogger for Distributed Systems Performance Analysis of the BaBar Data Analysis System" , Proceedings of Computers in High Energy Physics 2000 (CHEP 2000) , Feb. 2000, LBNL-44828.

Tierney, B. Lee, J., Crowley, B., Holding, M., Hylton, J., Drake, F., "A Network-Aware Distributed Storage Cache for Data Intensive Environments", Proceedings of IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing conference ( HPDC-8 ), August 1999, LBNL-42896.

Tierney, B., W. Johnston, B. Crowley, G. Hoo, C. Brooks, D. Gunter.The NetLogger Methodology for High Performance Distributed Systems Performance Analysis, Proceeding of IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing conference ( HPDC-7 ), July 1998, LBNL-42611. (viewgraphs)

Collaborative Papers with other Organizations:

A Chervenak, E. Deelman, I. Foster, A. Iamnitchi, C. Kesselman, W. Hoschek, P. Kunszt, M. Ripeanu, H. Stockinger, K. Stockinger, B. Tierney, "Giggle: A Framework for Constructing Scalable Replica Location Services", Proceeding of IEEE Supercomputing 2002 Conference, Nov. 2002.
R. Kalmady and B. Tierney, "A Comparison of GSIFTP and RFIO on a WAN", Proceedings of Computers in High Energy Physics 2001 (CHEP 2001).
B. Allcock, Foster, I., Nefedova, V., Chervenak, A., Deelman, E., Kesselman, C ., Sim, A., Shoshani, A., Lee, J., Drach, B., Williams, D. " High-Performance Remote Access to Climate Simulation Data: A Challenge Problem for Data Grid Technologies", Proceeding of the IEEE Supercomputing 2001 Conference, Nov. 2001.

Brian Tierney also co-authored a number of papers while on leave at CERN .

These papers are available on the EU DataGrid WP2 page.

Recent Invited Talks:

Tierney, Brian, TCP Tuning Seminar , UC Berkeley MIG Seminar, Oct 2002

Gunter, D., Future Directions for the Grid Monitoring Architecture, CERN: Geneva, Switzerland, March 2001

Tierney, B., Supercomputing 2000 Tutorial , Dallas, TX, Nov. 2000

Tierney, B., Cern Computing School Lecture on Data Grids and TCP tuning, Sept. 2000

Tierney, B., NetLogger Tutorial

Tierney, B., Experiences with TCP/IP over an ATM OC12 WAN, Gigabit Workshop at INFOCOM 99, March 1999.

Tierney, B., China Clipper Project Status Report

Tierney, B., Distributed Storage Caches and Distributed System Performance Analysis Tools, Supercomputing '98 Tutorial, November 1998.

Tierney, B., An Overview of the NetLogger Toolkit for Distributed Systems Analysis, Invited Talk at ANL

Johnston, W., Tierney, B., High-Speed Wide-Area Distributed Data Handling: Architecture, Implementation, and Issues (ESCC Talk, Mar 1998)

Tierney, B., An Overview of the DPSS (NERSC Seminar Talk, Nov 1997)

Previous Papers: (1990 - 1997)

Nitzan, R., Tierney, B., "Experiences with TCP/IP over an ATM OC12 WAN" , LBNL Report, April 1999.

Johnston, W., Lee, J., Tierney, B., and Tull, C., Directions and Issues for High Data Rate Wide Area Network Environments, Proceedings of the Computers in High Energy Physics Conference (CHEP 98), August 1998, LBNL-42610. (viewgraphs)

Lee, J., Tierney, B., and Johnston, W., "Data Intensive Distributed Computing: A Medical Application Example", Proceedings of the High Performance Computing and Networking Conference ( HPCN 99 ), April 1999, LBNL-42690. (viewgraphs)

Tierney, B., W. Johnston, G. Hoo, J. Lee, Performance Analysis in High-Speed Wide Area ATM Networks: Top-to-bottom end-to-end Monitoring, IEEE Network, Vol. 10, no. 3, May/June 1996, LBL-38246. (viewgraphs)

W. E. Johnston, W. Greiman, G. Hoo, J. Lee, B. Tierney, C. Tull, High-Speed Distributed Data Handling for On-Line Instrumentation Systems, Proceedings of IEEE Supercomputing '97 Conference (SC97), LBNL-40697. (viewgraphs)

Johnston, W., Jin G., C. Larsen, J. Lee, G. Hoo, M. Thompson, B. Tierney, J. Terdiman, Real-Time Generation and Cataloguing of Large Data-Objects in Widely Distributed Environments, International Journal of Digital Libraries - Special Issue on Digital Libraries in Medicine, LBNL-39613.

Tierney, B., W. Johnston, J. Lee, G. Hoo, and M. Thompson, End-to-End Performance Analysis of High Speed Distributed Storage Systems in Wide Area ATM Networks, NASA/Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, 1996, LBNL-39064. (viewgraphs)

Johnston, W., J. Guojun, G. Hoo, C. Larsen, J. Lee, B. Tierney, M. Thompson, Distributed Environments for Large Data-Objects: Broadband Networks and a New View of High Performance, Large-Scale Storage-Based Applications, Presented at Internetworking '96, LBNL-38969.

Johnston, W., Tierney, B., Feuguay, J, Butzer, T, "A Distributed Parallel Storage Architecture and its Potential Application Within EOSDIS", NASA Mass Storage Symposium, March 1995.

Tierney, B., W. Johnston, H. Herzog, G. Hoo, G. Jin, J. Lee, System Issues in Implementing High Speed Distributed Parallel Storage Systems , Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on High Speed Networking, Aug. 1994, LBL-35775.

Tierney, B., W. Johnston, T. Chen, H. Herzog, G. Hoo, G. Jin, J. Lee, Distributed Parallel Data Storage Systems: A Scalable Approach to High Speed Image Servers, Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia, October 1994, LBL-35408.

Tierney, B., W. Johnston, L.T. Chen, H. Herzog, G. Hoo, and J. Lee, The Image Server System: A High-Speed Parallel Distributed Data Server, Aug. 1994, LBL-36002. Presented at the MAGIC Gigabit Network Testbed Symposium, July 1994.

Tierney, B., W. Johnston, L.T. Chen, H. Herzog, G. Hoo, G. Jin, J. Lee, Using High Speed Networks to Enable Distributed Parallel Image Server Systems, Supercomputing '94 Conference, LBL-35437.

Previous Invited Talks:

Tierney, B., "Using the DPSS as a Network Performance Analysis Tool", Gigabit Networking Workshop, INFOCOM 97.

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