Managing clusters of geographically distributed high-performance computers

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 887-911

  Brune, Matthias ^a   Gehring, Jörn ^b   Keller, Axel ^b   Reinefeld, Alexander ^a  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

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EID: 0346334619     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19991225)11:15<887::AID-CPE459>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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