The story behind midnight, a part time high performance cluster

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 173-178

  Boklund, Andreas ^a   Jiresjö, Christian ^a   Mankefors, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cluster; Computing; Grid; Metamorphosic; Mosix

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HARD DISK STORAGE; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

CLUSTER; GRID; METAMORPHOSIC; MOSIX;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642280533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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