Performance control of scientific coupled models in Grid environments

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 259-295

  Armstrong, Christopher ^a   Ford, Rupert W ^a   Gurd, John R ^a   Luján, Mikel ^a   Mayes, Kenneth R ^a   Riley, Graham D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Component oriented programming; Coupled models; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Performance control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PERFORMANCE;

COMPONENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; COUPLED MODELS; DATA FLOW; GENERAL COUPLING FRAMEWORK (GCF); GRID COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE CONTROL;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 14244265829     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.926     Document Type: Article

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