Redirecting under-utilised computer laboratories into cluster computing facilities

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 201-209

  Atkinson, John S ^a   Spenneman, Dirk H R ^a   Cornforth, David ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Computers; Resource management; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144467446     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740510617511     Document Type: Review

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