Most cited papers in Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
What are the most cited papers in Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems?
The most cited paper in Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems is "Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0" (Mark Larkin, Gordon Blackshields, Nigel P. Brown et al., 2007), with 29,302 citations. Next come "Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment" (8,426) and "The art of case study research" (8,256).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,324 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0 Mark Larkin, Gordon Blackshields, Nigel P. Brown et al. · Bioinformatics | 10 Sep 2007 | 29,302 |
| 2 | Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment C. L. Liu, J. W. Layland · Journal of the ACM | 1973 | 8,426 |
| 3 | The art of case study research Reijo Savolainen · Library & Information Science Research | Jun 1996 | 8,256 |
| 4 | Simulating physics with computers Richard P. Feynman · International Journal of Theoretical Physics | Jun 1982 | 7,675 |
| 5 | The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman | Oct 1998 | 7,618 |
| 6 | The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke · The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications | Aug 2001 | 6,580 |
| 7 | Cloud computing and emerging IT platforms: Vision, hype, and reality for delivering computing as the 5th utility Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal et al. · Future Generation Computer Systems | 12 Dec 2008 | 5,956 |
| 8 | Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods Dimitri P. Bertsekas, John N. Tsitsiklis · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | 1989 | 5,430 |
| 9 | ROOT — An object oriented data analysis framework René Brun, Fons Rademakers · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | Apr 1997 | 4,977 |
| 10 | CloudSim: a toolkit for modeling and simulation of cloud computing environments and evaluation of resource provisioning algorithms Rodrigo Neves Calheiros, Rajiv Kumar Ranjan, Anton Beloglazov et al. · Software Practice and Experience | 24 Aug 2010 | 4,974 |
| 11 | The gem5 simulator Nathan L. Binkert, Bradford M. Beckmann, Gabriel Black et al. · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News | 31 May 2011 | 4,935 |
| 12 | The Hadoop Distributed File System Konstantin V. Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia et al. | May 2010 | 4,891 |
| 13 | Nextflow enables reproducible computational workflows Paolo Di Tommaso, Maria Chatzou, Evan W. Floden et al. · Nature Biotechnology | Apr 2017 | 4,440 |
| 14 | IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing Fernando Evier López Pérez, Brian Granger · Computing in Science & Engineering | 2007 | 4,209 |
| 15 | The C++ Programming Language Bjarne Stroustrup | 1985 | 3,847 |
| 16 | Resilient distributed datasets: a fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Tathagata Das et al. | 25 Apr 2012 | 3,572 |
| 17 | Pregel Grzegorz Greg Malewicz, Matthew H. Austern, Aart J. C. Bik et al. | 6 Jun 2010 | 3,571 |
| 18 | Performance-effective and low-complexity task scheduling for heterogeneous computing Haluk Rahmi Topcuoglu, Salim Hariri, Min‐You Wu · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems | Mar 2002 | 3,476 |
| 19 | The PARSEC benchmark suite Christian Bienia, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaswinder Pal Singh et al. | 25 Oct 2008 | 3,459 |
| 20 | OpenMP: an industry standard API for shared-memory programming Leonardo Dagum, Ramesh G. Menon · IEEE Computational Science and Engineering | 1998 | 3,386 |
| 21 | XSEDE: Accelerating Scientific Discovery John W. Towns, Timothy M. Cockerill, Maytal Dahan et al. · Computing in Science & Engineering | 25 Jul 2014 | 3,332 |
| 22 | Basis Set Exchange: A Community Database for Computational Sciences Karen L. Schuchardt, Brett Didier, Todd Elsethagen et al. · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling | 12 Apr 2007 | 3,189 |
| 23 | Globus: a Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman · The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing | Jun 1997 | 3,157 |
| 24 | The many faces of publish/subscribe Patrick Th. Eugster, Pascal A. Felber, Rachid Guerraoui et al. · ACM Computing Surveys | Jun 2003 | 3,137 |
| 25 | Rodinia: A benchmark suite for heterogeneous computing Shuai Che, Michael Joseph Boyer, Jiayuan Meng et al. | Oct 2009 | 3,043 |
| 26 | MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Cluster Muthu Dayalan · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING | Apr 2018 | 2,975 |
| 27 | Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu et al. | Nov 2008 | 2,917 |
| 28 | Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute Gregory M. Kurtzer, Vanessa Sochat, Michael W. Bauer · PLoS ONE | 11 May 2017 | 2,867 |
| 29 | Parton distributions for the LHC run II Richard D. Ball, Valerio Bertone, Stefano Carrazza et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Apr 2015 | 2,763 |
| 30 | Cassandra Avinash Lakshman, Prashant Malik · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review | 14 Apr 2010 | 2,672 |
| 31 | Jupyter Notebooks – a publishing format for reproducible computational workflows Thomas A. Kluyver, Benjamin Ragan-Kelley, Pérez Fernando et al. · IOS Press eBooks | 2016 | 2,619 |
| 32 | Workflow Patterns Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Bartek Kiepuszewski et al. · Distributed and Parallel Databases | 4 Apr 2003 | 2,612 |
| 33 | A break in the clouds Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero‐Merino, Juan Cáceres et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | 31 Dec 2008 | 2,598 |
| 34 | The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography Frank Natterer, Ge Wang · Medical Physics | 2002 | 2,585 |
| 35 | Live migration of virtual machines Christopher James Clark, Keir Fraser, Steven J. Hand et al. | 2 May 2005 | 2,580 |
| 36 | The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle · Computer | Dec 2007 | 2,496 |
| 37 | Roofline Samuel Williams, Andrew S. Waterman, David A. Patterson · Communications of the ACM | Apr 2009 | 2,477 |
| 38 | NAMD2: Greater Scalability for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Laxmikant V. Kalé, Robert D. Skeel, Milind A. Bhandarkar et al. · Journal of Computational Physics | May 1999 | 2,463 |
| 39 | Introduction to the Theory of Quantized Fields Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov, Дмитрий Васильевич Ширков, Ernest M. Henley · Physics Today | Jul 1960 | 2,361 |
| 40 | A Fully Asynchronous Multifrontal Solver Using Distributed Dynamic Scheduling Patrick Amestoy, Iain Duff, Jean-Yves L’Excellent et al. · SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications | 2001 | 2,304 |
| 41 | Generative communication in Linda David Hillel Gelernter · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems | 2 Jan 1985 | 2,286 |
| 42 | Condor-a hunter of idle workstations Michael Litzkow, Miron Livny, Matt W. Mutka | 6 Jan 2003 | 2,264 |
| 43 | Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems Gul Agha · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | 1986 | 2,237 |
| 44 | A high-performance, portable implementation of the MPI message passing interface standard William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk, Nathan Doss et al. · Parallel Computing | Sep 1996 | 2,236 |
| 45 | Efficient Management of Parallelism in Object-Oriented Numerical Software Libraries Satish Balay, William Gropp, Lois Curfman McInnes et al. · Birkhäuser Boston eBooks | 1997 | 2,052 |
| 46 | Numerical recipes in C++: The art of scientific computing Frederick Crimins · Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology | 2003 | 2,016 |
| 47 | SPEC CPU2006 benchmark descriptions John L. Henning · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News | Sep 2006 | 1,991 |
| 48 | Grid services for distributed system integration Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, J.M. Nick et al. · Computer | Jun 2002 | 1,962 |
| 49 | Feynman diagrams for the Yang-Mills field L. D. Faddeev, Victor Nikolaevich Popov · Physics Letters B | Jul 1967 | 1,954 |
| 50 | Bigtable: a distributed storage system for structured data Fay W. Chang, Jay B. Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat et al. | 6 Nov 2006 | 1,948 |
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