The Internet Backplane Protocol: A study in resource sharing

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 551-561

  Bassi, Alessandro ^a   Beck, Micah ^a   Moore, Terry ^a   Plank, James S ^a   Swany, Martin ^b   Wolski, Rich ^b   Fagg, Graham ^c  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asynchronous communications; Computing center; End to end design; Grid computing; Internet Backplane Protocol; Logistical networking; Network storage; Resource sharing; Scalability; Store and forward networking

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLEWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

LOGISTICAL NETWORKING;

INTERNET;

EID: 0037403712     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(03)00033-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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