EasyGrid: Towards a framework for the automatic Grid enabling of legacy MPI applications

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 425-432

  Boeres, Cristina ^a   Rebello, Vinod E F ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Grid computing; Grid middleware; MPI programs; System aware applications; Task scheduling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GRID COMPUTING; GRID MIDDLEWARE; MPI PROGRAMS; SYSTE-WARE APPLICATIONS; TASK SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 2342431038     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.821     Document Type: Article

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