@InProceedings{Xue_LNCS_20090526, author = {Yong Xue and Forrest M. Hoffman and Dingsheng Liu}, title = {{G}eo{C}omputation 2009}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science ({ICCS 2009})}, editor = {Gabrielle Allen and Jaros{\l}aw Nabrzyski and Edward Seidel and Geert Dick van Albada and Jack Dongarra and Peter M.A. Sloot}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, address = {Heidelberg}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science ({LNCS})}, dates = {25--27 May 2009}, location = {Baton Rogue, Louisiana, USA}, volume = 5545, pages = {345--348}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-01973-9\_38}, isbn = {978-3-642-01972-2}, day = 26, month = may, year = 2009, abstract = {The tremendous computing requirements of today's algorithms and the high costs of high-performance supercomputers drive us to share computing resources. The emerging computational Grid technologies are expected to make feasible the creation of a computational environment handling many PetaBytes of distributed data, tens of thousands of heterogeneous computing resources, and thousands of simultaneous users from multiple research institutions (Giovanni et al. 2003).} }