Clusters as large-scale development facilities

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 54-63

  Evard, R ^a   Desai, N ^a   Navarro, J P ^a   Nurmi, D ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Cities and towns; Hardware; Laboratories; Large scale systems; Scalability; Software testing; Standards development; System software; System testing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LABORATORIES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING; STANDARDS;

CITIES AND TOWNS; COMPUTING FACILITIES; DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY; DEVELOPMENT FACILITY; LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM SOFTWARES; SYSTEM TESTING;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 20444502321     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2002.1137729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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