Characterizing and evaluating desktop grids: An empirical study

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004 (Abstracts and CD-ROM)

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 353-362

  Kondo, Derrick ^a   Taufer, Michela ^a,c   Brooks III, Charles L ^c   Casanova, Henri ^a,b   Chien, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SCHEDULING; SERVERS;

CYCLE STEALING SYSTEMS; DESKTOP GRIDS; GRID SOFTWARE; TEMPORAL STRUCTURE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 12444289556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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