A worldwide flock of Condors: Load sharing among workstation clusters

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 53-65

  Epema, D H J ^a   Livny, Miron ^b   Van Dantzig, Rene' ^c   Evers, Xander ^a,c   Pruyne, Jim ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison ^*  (United States)

^c NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Batch queueing system; Distributed processing; Flocking; Ownership rights; Wide area load sharing

Indexed keywords

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; UNIX; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

BATCH QUEUEING SYSTEM; CONDOR POOLS; DISTRIBUTED BATCH SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; GATEWAY MACHINE; LOAD SHARING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030145596     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-739X(95)00035-Q     Document Type: Article

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