Making the grid predictable through reservations and performance modelling

Computer Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 358-368

  McGough, Andrew Stephen ^a   Afzal, Ali ^a   Darlington, John ^a   Furmento, Nathalie ^a   Mayer, Anthony ^a   Young, Laurie ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THEOREM PROVING;

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE GRID;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 18844442310     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxh091     Document Type: Article

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