CCL Research Publications

2013

• Dinesh Rajan, Andrew Thrasher, Badi Abdul-Wahid, Jesus A Izaguirre, Scott Emrich, and Douglas Thain,
  Case Studies in Designing Elastic Applications,
  13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), May, 2013.

• Brenden Kokoszka, Patrick Donnelly, and Douglas Thain,
  Search Should be a System Call,
  University of Notre Dame, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Technical Report 2013-03, April, 2013.

2012

• Christopher Moretti, Andrew Thrasher, Li Yu, Michael Olson, Scott Emrich, and Douglas Thain,
  A Framework for Scalable Genome Assembly on Clusters, Clouds, and Grids,
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 23(12), December, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.80

• Badi Abdul-Wahid, Li Yu, Dinesh Rajan, Haoyun Feng, Eric Darve, Douglas Thain, Jesus A. Izaguirre,
  Folding Proteins at 500 ns/hour with Work Queue,
  8th IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2012), October, 2012.

• Peter Sempolinski, Daniel Wei, Douglas Thain and Ahsan Kareem,
  A System for Management of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations for Civil Engineering,
  8th IEEE International Conference on eScience, October, 2012.

• Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Patrick Flynn and Douglas Thain,
  ROARS: A Robust Object Archival System for Data Intensive Scientific Computing,
  Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer, August, 2012. DOI: 10.1007/s10619-012-7103-5

• Peter Bui,
  A Compiler Toolchain For Data Intensive Scientific Workflows,
  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, June, 2012.

• Patrick Donnelly and Douglas Thain,
  Fine-Grained Access Control in the Chirp Distributed File System,
  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, May, 2012.

• Michael Albrecht, Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, and Douglas Thain,
  Makeflow: A Portable Abstraction for Data Intensive Computing on Clusters, Clouds, and Grids,
  Workshop on Scalable Workflow Enactment Engines and Technologies (SWEET) at ACM SIGMOD, May, 2012.

• Hoang Bui,
  A Rich Metadata Filesystem for Scientific Data,
  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, May, 2012.

• Andrew Thrasher, Zachary Musgrave, Douglas Thain, Scott Emrich,
  Shifting the Bioinformatics Computing Paradigm: A Case Study in Parallelizing Genome Annotation Using Maker and Work Queue,
  IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, February, 2012.

• Douglas Thain, Michael Albrecht, Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Rory Carmichael, Scott Emrich, and Patrick Flynn,
  Data Intensive Computing with Clustered Chirp Servers,
  Tevfik Kosar, Data Intensive Distributed Computing: Challenges and Solutions for Large Scale Information Management, pages 140-154, IGI, January, 2012. ISBN: 9781615209712

2011

• Rory Carmichael, Patrick Braga-Henebry, Douglas Thain, and Scott Emrich,
  Biocompute 2.0: An Improved Collaborative Workspace for Data Intensive Bio-Science.,
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 23(17), pages 2305-2314, December, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1782

• Dinesh Rajan, Anthony Canino, Jesus A Izaguirre, and Douglas Thain,
  Converting a High Performance Application to an Elastic Cloud Application,
  The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2011), November, 2011.

• Peter Bui, Dinesh Rajan, Badi Abdul-Wahid, Jesus Izaguirre, Douglas Thain,
  Work Queue + Python: A Framework For Scalable Scientific Ensemble Applications,
  Workshop on Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC) at the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (Supercomputing) , November, 2011.

• Peter Bui, Li Yu, Andrew Thrasher, Rory Carmichael, Irena Lanc, Patrick Donnelly, Douglas Thain,
  Scripting distributed scientific workflows using Weaver,
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, November, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1871

• Irena Lanc, Peter Bui, Douglas Thain, and Scott Emrich,
  Adapting Bioinformatics Applications for Heterogeneous Systems: A Case Study,
  Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshop at ACM HPDC, pages 7-13, June, 2011. DOI: 10.1145/1996023.1996025

• Peter Sempolinski and Douglas Thain,
  An Introductino to Open-Source IaaS Cloud Middleware,
  Boualem Benatallah, Cloud Computing: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, pages 133-149, CRC Press, January, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4398-5641-3

2010

• Peter Sempolinski and Douglas Thain,
  A Comparison and Critique of Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus,
  IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, pages 417-426, November, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.42

• Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, Douglas Thain,
  Attaching Cloud Storage to a Campus Grid Using Parrot, Chirp, and Hadoop ,
  IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, pages 488-495, November, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.74

• Andrew Thrasher, Rory Carmichael, Peter Bui, Li Yu, Douglas Thain, and Scott Emrich,
  Taming Complex Bioinformatics Workflows with Weaver, Makeflow, and Starch,
  Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large Scale Science, pages 1-6, November, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/WORKS.2010.5671858

• Li Yu, Christopher Moretti, Andrew Thrasher, Scott Emrich, Kenneth Judd, and Douglas Thain,
  Harnessing Parallelism in Multicore Clusters with the All-Pairs, Wavefront, and Makeflow Abstractions,
  Journal of Cluster Computing, 13(3), pages 243-256, September, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/s10586-010-0134-7

• Paul Brenner, Ryan Jansen, David Go, and Douglas Thain,
  Environmentally Opportunistic Computing: Transforming the Data Center for Economic and Environmental Sustainability,
  IEEE Green Computing Conference, pages 383-388, August, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/GREENCOMP.2010.5598289

• Douglas Thain and Christopher Moretti,
  Abstractions for Cloud Computing with Condor,
  Syed Ahson and Mohammad Ilyas, Cloud Computing and Software Services: Theory and Techniques, pages 153-171, CRC Press, July, 2010. ISBN: 9781439803158

• Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Patrick Flynn and Douglas Thain,
  ROARS: A Scalable Repository for Data Intensive Scientific Computing,
  The Third International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing at ACM HPDC 2010, June, 2010. DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851587

• Peter Bui, Li Yu and Douglas Thain,
  Weaver: Integrating Distributed Computing Abstractions into Scientific Workflows using Python,
  Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments at ACM HPDC 2010, June, 2010. DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851570

• Hoang Bui, Diane Wright, Clarence Helm, Rachel Witty, Patrick Flynn and Douglas Thain,
  Towards Long Term Data Quality in a Large Scale Biometrics Experiment,
  Managing Data Quality for Collaborative Science at ACM HPDC 2010, June, 2010. DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851559

• Christopher Moretti,
  Abstractions for Scientific Computing on Campus Grids,
  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, June, 2010.

• Rory Carmichael, Patrick Braga-Henebry, Douglas Thain, and Scott Emrich,
  Biocompute: Toward a Collaborative Workspace for Data Intensive Bio-Science,
  Workshop on Emerging Computational Methods for Life Sciences at ACM HPDC 2010, pages 489-498, June, 2010. DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851547

• Christopher Moretti, Hoang Bui, Karen Hollingsworth, Brandon Rich, Patrick Flynn, and Douglas Thain,
  All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data Intensive Computing on Campus Grids,
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 21(1), pages 33-46, January, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2009.49

• Kyle Wheeler and Douglas Thain,
  Visualizing Massively Multithreaded Applications with ThreadScope,
  to appear in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 22(1), pages 45-67, January, 2010. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1469

2009

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Alex Szalay, Philip Little, Christopher Moretti, Amitabh Chaudhary, and Douglas Thain,
  Towards Data Intensive Many Task Computing,
  Tevfik Kosar, Data Intensive Distributed Computing: Challenges and Solutions for Large-Scale Information Management, IGI, 2009.

• Kyle Wheeler,
  Exploiting Locality with QThreads for Portable Parallel Performance,
  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, November, 2009.

• Christopher Moretti, Michael Olson, Scott Emrich, and Douglas Thain,
  Highly Scalable Genome Assembly on Campus Grids,
  Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS), November, 2009. DOI: 10.1145/1646468.1646480

• Andrew Blaich, Douglas Thain, and Aaron Striegel,
  Reflections on the Virtues of Modularity: A Case Study in Linux Security Modules,
  Software: Practice and Experience, 39(15), pages 1235-1251, October, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/spe.933

• Jeffrey Hemmes, Douglas Thain, and Christian Poellabauer,
  Cooperative Localization in GPS-Limited Urban Environments,
  ICST AdHocNets, September, 2009.

• Michael Lammie, Douglas Thain, and Paul Brenner,
  Scheduling Grid Workloads on Multicore Clusters to Minimize Energy and Maximize Performance,
  IEEE Grid Computing, September, 2009.

• Kyle Wheeler, Douglas Thain, Rich Murphy,
  Portable Performance from Workstation to Supercomputer: Distributing Data Structures with Qthreads,
  Workshop on Programming Models for Emerging Architectures, pages 1-8, September, 2009.

• T. Kosar, A. Hutanu, J. McLaren and D. Thain,
  Coordination of Access to Large-scale Datasets in Distributed Environments,
  A. Shoshani and D. Rotem, Scientific Data Management: Challenges, Existing Technology, and Deployment, Chapman and Hall / CRC Press, August, 2009. ISBN: 978-1420069808

• Christopher Moretti, Michael Olson, Scott Emrich, and Douglas Thain,
  Scalable Modular Genome Assembly on Campus Grids,
  University of Notre Dame, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Technical Report 2009-04, July, 2009.

• Jeffrey Hemmes,
  Improving Data Availability in Mobile Applications Through Enhanced Cooperative Localization,
  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, July, 2009.

• Li Yu, Christopher Moretti, Scott Emrich, Kenneth Judd, and Douglas Thain,
  Harnessing Parallelism in Multicore Clusters with the All-Pairs and Wavefront Abstractions,
  IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 1-10, June, 2009. DOI: 10.1145/1551609.1551613

• Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, and Dewitt Latimer,
  Grid Heating Clusters: Transforming Cooling Constraints Into Thermal Benefits,
  The Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT Award Paper, pages 1-7, June, 2009.

• Gabrielle Compostella, Simone Pagan Griso, Donatella Lucchesi, Igor Sfiligoi, and Douglas Thain,
  CDF Software Distribution on the Grid using Parrot,
  Computing in High Energy Physics, May, 2009.

• Patrick Braga-Henebry,
  Biocompute: Harnessing Distributed Systems for Bioinformatics,
  B.S. Honors Thesis, University of Notre Dame, May, 2009.

• Hoang Bui, Michael Kelly, Christopher Lyon, Mark Pasquier, Deborah Thomas, Patrick Flynn, and Douglas Thain,
  Experience with BXGrid: A Data Repository and Computing Grid for Biometrics Research,
  Journal of Cluster Computing, 12(4), pages 373, April, 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s10586-009-0098-7

• Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, and Jeffrey Hemmes,
  Chirp: A Practical Global Filesystem for Cluster and Grid Computing,
  Journal of Grid Computing, 7(1), pages 51-72, March, 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s10723-008-9100-5

2008

• Hoang Bui, Deborah Thomas, Michael Kelly, Christopher Lyon, Douglas Thain, and Patrick J. Flynn,
  Poster: BXGrid: A Data Repository and Workflow Abstraction for Biometrics Research,
  IEEE International Conference on e-Science, pages 394-395, December, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2008.135

• Christopher Moretti, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Douglas Thain, and Nitesh V. Chawla,
  Scaling Up Classifiers to Cloud Computers,
  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), pages 472-481, December, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2008.99

• Paul Brenner, Justin Wozniak, Douglas Thain Aaron Striegel, Jeffrey Peng, and Jesus Izaguirre,
  Biomolecular Committor Probability Calculation Enabled by Processing in Network Storage,
  Journal of Parallel Computing, 34(11), pages 652-660, November, 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2008.08.001

• Qi Liao, Andrew Blaich, Aaron Striegel, and Douglas Thain,
  ENAVis: Enterprise Network Activities Visualization,
  USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA), pages 59-74, November, 2008.

• David Cieslak, Nitesh Chawla, and Douglas Thain,
  Troubleshooting Thousands of Jobs on Production Grids Using Data Mining Techniques,
  IEEE Grid Computing, pages 217-224, August, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2008.4662802

• Brandon Rich and Douglas Thain,
  Poster: DataLab: Transactional Data Parallel Computing on an Active Storage Cloud,
  IEEE/ACM High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 233-234, June, 2008. DOI: 10.1145/1383422.1383461

• Christopher Moretti, Jared Bulosan, Douglas Thain, and Patrick Flynn,
  All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data Intensive Cloud Computing,
  IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pages 1-11, April, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536311

• Kyle Wheeler, Richard Murphy, and Douglas thain,
  QThreads: An API for Programming with Millions of Lightweight Threads,
  Workshop on Multithreaded Architectures and Applications at IEEE IPDPS, pages 1-8, April, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536359

• Douglas Thain and Patrick Flynn,
  Towards a Data Analysis Grid for Biometrics Research,
  University of Notre Dame, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Technical Report 2008-05, April, 2008.

• Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre,
  Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Prioritized Storage Management in GEMS,
  Future Generation Computing Systems, 24(1), pages 10-16, January, 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2007.04.003

• Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, and Dewitt Latimer,
  Grid Heating: Transforming Cooling Constraints Into Thermal Benefits,
  University of Notre Dame, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Technical Report 2008-09, 2008.

2007

• Jeffrey Hemmes, Christian Poellabauer, and Douglas Thain,
  On Demand Transient Storage and Backup in Mobile Systems,
  IEEE Military Communications Conference, pages 1-7, October, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2007.4454917

• Jeffrey Hemmes, Douglas Thain, Christian Poellabauer, Christopher Moretti, Phil Snowberger, and Brendan McNutt,
  Lessons Learned Building TeamTrak: An Urban/Outdoor Mobile Testbed,
  International Conference on Wireless Architectures Systems and Applications, pages 219-224, October, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/WASA.2007.35

• Jeffrey Hemmes, Douglas Thain, and Christian Poellabauer,
  Work in Progress: Integrating Undergraduate Research and Education via the TeamTrak Mobile Computing Framework,
  IEEE Frontiers in Education, pages 1-2, October, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2007.4418007

• Douglas Thain and Christopher Moretti,
  Efficient Access to Many Small Files in a Filesystem for Grid Computing,
  IEEE Grid Computing, pages 243-250, September, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2007.4354139

• Andrew Blaich, Qi Liao, Greg Allan, Aaron Striegel, and Douglas Thain,
  Poster: Lockdown: Distributed Policy Analysis and Enforcement within the Enterprise Network,
  USENIX Security Symposium, September, 2007.

• Christopher Moretti, Jared Bulosan, Douglas Thain, and Patrick J. Flynn,
  Poster: All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data Intensive Computing,
  IEEE/ACM Grid Computing, September, 2007.

• Christopher Moretti, Timothy Faltemier, Douglas Thain, and Patrick J. Flynn,
  Challenges in Executing Data Intensive Biometric Workloads on a Desktop Grid,
  Workshop on Large Scale and Volatile Desktop Grids at IEEE IPDPS, pages 481-489, April, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370671

• Paul Brenner, Justin Wozniak, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, Jeffrey Peng, and Jesus Izaguirre,
  Biomolecular Path Sampling Enabled by Processing in Network Storage,
  Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology at IEEE IPDPS, pages 1-6, April, 2007. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370446

• Christopher Moretti,
  Flexible Object Based Filesystems for Scientific Computing,
  M.S. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, April, 2007.

• Philip Snowberger,
  Sub-Identities: A Hierarchical Identity Model for Practical Containment,
  M.S. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, April, 2007.

2006

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  How to Measure a Large Open Source Distributed System,
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 18(15), pages 1989-2019, December, 2006. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.v18:15

• Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, Jesus Izaguirre,
  Access Control for a Replica Management Database,
  ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability at ACM CCS, pages 41-46, October, 2006. DOI: 10.1145/1179559.1179567

• Christophe Blanchet, Remi Mollon, Douglas Thain, and Gilbert Deleage,
  Grid Deployment of Legacy Bioinformatics Applications with Transparent Data Access,
  IEEE Grid Computing, pages 120-127, September, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/ICGRID.2006.311006

• Douglas Thain,
  Operating System Support for Space Allocation in Grid Storage Systems,
  IEEE Grid Computing, pages 104-111, September, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/ICGRID.2006.311004

• Jeffrey Hemmes and Douglas Thain,
  Cacheable Decentralized Groups for Grid Resource Access Control,
  IEEE Grid Computing, pages 192-199, September, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/ICGRID.2006.311015

• Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Douglas Thain, Xiaosong Ma, and Vincent Freeh,
  Positioning Dynamic Storage Caches for Transient Data,
  Workshop on High-Performance I/O Techniques and Deployment of Very Large Scale I/O Systems at IEEE Cluster Computing, pages 1-9, September, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311900

• Phil Snowberger and Douglas Thain,
  Poster: Sub-Identities: Security for Mere Mortals,
  USENIX Security, September, 2006.

• Douglas Thain and Christian Poellabauer,
  Experience with a Literate Approach to Computer Science,
  IEEE Frontiers in Education, pages 8-13, August, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2006.322405

• Faruck Morcos, Thidapat Chantem, Philip Little, Tiago Gasiba, and Douglas Thain,
  iDIBS: An Improved Distributed Internet Backup System,
  IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), pages 58-67, July, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/ICPADS.2006.52

• Sander Klous, Jamie Frey, Se-Chang Son, Douglas Thain, Alain Roy, Miron Livny, and Jo van den Brand,
  Transparent Access to Grid Resources for User Software,
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 18(7), pages 787-801, June, 2006. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.961

• David Cieslak, Douglas Thain, Nitesh Chawla,
  Short Paper: Troubleshooting Distributed Systems via Data Mining,
  IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), pages 309-312, June, 2006.

• Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre,
  Applying Feedback Control to a Replica Management System,
  IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, pages 472-476, March, 2006. DOI: 10.1109/SSST.2006.1619125

• Stefano Belforte, Matthew Normal, Subir Sarkar, Ifor Sfiligoi, Douglas Thain, Frank Wuerthwein,
  Using Condor Glide-Ins and Parrot to Move from Dedicated Resources to the Grid,
  Lecture Notes in Informatics, 81, pages 285-292, March, 2006.

• Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, and Igor Sfiligoi,
  Transparently Distributing CDF Software with Parrot,
  Computing in High Energy Physics, pages 1-4, February, 2006.

2005

• Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, Paul Madrid, Phil Snowberger, and Jeff Hemmes,
  The Consequences of Decentralized Security in a Cooperative Storage System,
  Workshop on Security in Storage at IEEE FAST, pages 82-94, December, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/SISW.2005.11

• Douglas Thain, Sander Klous, Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre,
  Separating Abstractions from Resources in a Tactical Storage System ,
  IEEE/ACM Supercomputing, pages 55-67, November, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/SC.2005.64

• Douglas Thain,
  Identity Boxing: A New Technique for Consistent Global Identity,
  IEEE/ACM Supercomputing, pages 51-61, November, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/SC.2005.34

• Douglas Thain and Christian Poellabauer,
  Work in Progress: A Literate Approach to Graduate Computer Science Education,
  IEEE Frontiers in Education, pages 1-2, October, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2005.1612087

• Philip Snowberger and Douglas thain,
  Towards Operating System Support for Distributed System Security,
  University of Notre Dame, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Technical Report 2005-18, October, 2005.

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  Parrot: An Application Environment for Data-Intensive Computing,
  Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 6(3), pages 9-18, September, 2005.

• Douglas Thain,
  Poster: Identity Boxing: Secure User-Level Containment for the Grid,
  IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 299-300, June, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2005.1520984

• Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre,
  Generosity and Gluttony in GEMS: Grid Enabled Molecular Simulations,
  IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 191-200, June, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2005.1520959

• Timothy Schoenharl, Scott Christley, and Douglas Thain,
  Patisserie: Support for Parameter Sweeps in a Fault-Tolerant, Massively Parallel, Peer-to-Peer Simulation Environment,
  Workshop on Agent Directed Simulation (ADS), pages 1-8, April, 2005.

• Douglas Thain, Todd Tannenbaum, and Miron Livny,
  Distributed Computing in Practice: The Condor Experience,
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 17(2-4), pages 323-356, February, 2005. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.v17:2/4

2004

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  Building Reliable Clients and Servers,
  Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, Morgan Kaufmann, 2004. ISBN: 1-55860-933-4

• Douglas Thain,
  Coordinating Access to Computation and Data in Distributed Systems,
  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, August, 2004.

• John Bent, Douglas Thain, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Miron Livny,
  Explicit Control in a Batch Aware Distributed File System,
  USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), pages 365-378, April, 2004.

2003

• Douglas Thain, Todd Tannenbaum, and Miron Livny,
  Condor and the Grid,
  Fran Berman and Anthony Hey and Geoffrey Fox, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, John Wiley, 2003. ISBN: 0-470-85319-0

• Douglas Thain, John Bent, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Miron Livny,
  Pipeline and Batch Sharing in Grid Workloads,
  IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 152-161, June, 2003. DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2003.1210025

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  The Ethernet Approach to Grid Computing,
  IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 138-, June, 2003. DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2003.1210024

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  Parrot: Transparent User-Level Middleware for Data Intensive Computing,
  Workshop on Adaptive Grid Middleware at PACT, January, 2003.

• Oleg Lodygensky, Gilles Fedak, Vincent Neri, Franck Cappello, Miron Livny, and Douglas Thain,
  XtremWeb and Condor: Sharing Resources Between Internet Connected Condor Pools,
  Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing on Large Scale Distributed Systems at CCGRID, pages 382-390, 2003. DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199391

2002

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  Error Scope on a Computational Grid,
  IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 199-208, July, 2002. DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2002.1029919

2001

• Douglas Thain, John Bent, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Miron Livny,
  Gathering at the Well: Creating Communities for Grid I/O,
  IEEE/ACM Supercomputing, pages 21-31, November, 2001. DOI: 10.1109/SC.2001.10023

• Douglas Thain, Jim Basney, Se-Chang Son, and Miron Livny,
  The Kangaroo Approach to Data Movement on the Grid,
  IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 325-333, August, 2001. DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2001.945200

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  Multiple Bypass: Interposition Agents for Distributed Computing,
  Journal of Cluster Computing, 4(1), pages 39-47, March, 2001. DOI: 10.1023/A:1011412209850

2000

• Douglas Thain and Miron Livny,
  Bypass: A Tool for Building Split Execution Systems,
  IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 79-85, August, 2000. DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2000.868637