Using agent-based software for scientific computing in the NetSolve system

Parallel Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 12-13, 1998, Pages 1777-1790

  Casanova, Henri ^b   Dongarra, Jack ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agent; Client server; Computational servers; Fault tolerance; Load balancing; Metacomputing; Networking; Scientific computing

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

COMPUTATIONAL SERVERS; METACOMPUTING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032208801     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(98)00077-5     Document Type: Article

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