Ricerc@Sapienza

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have proved to be a useful tool for unveiling many aspects of pore formation in lipid membranes under the influence of external electric fields. In order to compare the size-related properties of pores in bilayers of various compositions, generated and maintained under different physical and chemical conditions, reference metrics are needed for characterizing pore geometry and its evolution over time.

In this paper, we explore on a comparative basis the performance suitability of meta-heuristic, sometime denoted as random search algorithms, and greedy-type heuristics for the energy-saving joint dynamic scaling and consolidation of the network-plus-computing resources hosted by networked virtualized data centers when the target is the support of real-time streaming-type applications.