Design and implementations of Ninf: towards a global computing infrastructure

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 649-658

  Nakada, Hidemoto ^a   Sato, Mitsuhisa ^b   Sekiguchi, Satoshi ^a  

^a ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b Real World Computing Partnership   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DESIGN; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; PERFORMANCE; SCHEDULING; WIDE AREA NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GLOBAL COMPUTING; INTERFACE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE; NETWORK BASED INFORMATION LIBRARY FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032592485     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(99)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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