Publications

Technical Reports and Whitepapers

K. Ricker, Barlow, J., Adams, C. (2008, February).  “FBI Major Case 216:  A Case Study.” National Center for Digital Intrusion Response, NCSA, Urbana, IL.

B. F. Spencer, Jr., R. Butler, K. Ricker, D. Marcusiu, T. Finholt, I. Foster, C. Kesselman. (2006, Sept.). “Cyberenvironment Project Management: Lessons Learned.”

NSF Middleware Initiative. (2005, June). NSF Middleware Initiative: Prospectus. (managing editor)

B. F. Spencer, Jr., et al. (2003, Dec.). “The MOST Experiment.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Available: http://www.neesgrid.org/documents/MOST_document_v1.0.pdf

Book Chapters

B. F. Spencer, Jr., Randal Butler, Kathleen Ricker, Doru Marcusiu, Thomas A. Finholt, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, and Jeremy Birnholtz, “NEESgrid: lessons learned for future cyberinfrastructure development,” in Scientific Collaboration on the Internet, Olson, Zimmerman, and Bos, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008, pp. 331-347.

Conference Papers and Proceedings

B. F. Spencer, A. Elnashai, N. Nakata, H. Saliem, G. Yang, J. Futrelle, W. Glick, D. Marcusiu, K. Ricker, T. Finholt, D. Horn, P. Hubbard, K. Keahey, L. Liming, N. Zaluzec, L. Pearlman, E. Stauffer, “The MOST Experiment: Earthquake Engineering on the Grid.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Case Studies on Grid Applications – Global Grid Forum 10, 2004. Available: http://www.cs.vu.nl/ggf/apps-rg/meetings/ggf10/MOST.pdf

L. Pearlman, C. Kesselman, S. Gullapalli, B. F. Spencer Jr., J. Futrelle, K. Ricker, I. Foster, P. Hubbard, C. Severance, “Distributed Hybrid Earthquake Engineering Experiments: Experiences with a Ground-Shaking Grid Application,” in 13^th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-13’04), 2004, pp. 14-23. Available: http://www.hpdc.org/2004/papers/148.pdf

Selected Feature Articles

“Critical Inquiry” (Access, October 7, 2008)

“An Amazing Race” (Access, August 24, 2007)

“The Steps Between” (Access, May 9, 2007)

“Protein Wranglers” (Access, January 10, 2007)

“Trust Matters”(NCASSR, January 5, 2007)

“Tectonic Shifts” (Access, November 9, 2006)

“The Shape of Things To Come” (TRECC, March 4, 2006)

“The Next Best Thing” (TRECC, February 3, 2006)

“Optical Race” (HPCWire, January 27, 2006)

“Nanoscientists at the Gates” (Access, January 25, 2006)

“Selfish Proteins” (Access, August 23, 2005)

“Faster, Cheaper, Better” (Access, April 5, 2005)

“The Big Picture” (Access, February 8, 2005)

“It’s All In The Solution” (Access, December 14, 2004)

“Building Bridges” (Access, October 5, 2004)

“Learning from the Tree of Life” (TRECC, September 2004; Spring 2005 Access print edition)

“Butterfly Bending and Other Delicate Matters” (Access, April 20, 2004)

“Cold Diffusion” (Access, January 27, 2004)

“Vortices Unbound” (Access, October 23, 2003)

“A Quieter Blue Yonder” (Access, September 23, 2003)

“Archiving the Universe” (Access, May 13, 2003)