ASKALON: A tool set for cluster and Grid computing

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 143-169

  Fahringer, Thomas ^a   Jugravu, Alexandra ^b   Pllana, Sabri ^b   Prodan, Radu ^b   Seragiotto Jr , Clovis ^b   Truong, Hong Linh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bottleneck detection; Cluster computing; Experiment management; Grid computing; Measurement and analysis; Parallel and distributed applications; Performance prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; DATA ACQUISITION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BOTTLENECK DETECTION; CLUSTER COMPUTING; EXPERIMENT MANAGEMENT; GRID COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 14244250192     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.929     Document Type: Article

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