Computation-at-risk: Assessing job portfolio management risk on clusters

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

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 3497-3503

  Kleban, Stephen D ^a   Clearwater, Scott H ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISKS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CLUSTERS; COMPUTATION-AT-RISK; EXPANSION FACTORS; JOB PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 12444292740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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