Building and managing the eminerals clusters: A case study in grid-enabled cluster operation

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 30-37

  Bruin, Richard P ^a   Dove, Martin T ^a,d   Calleja, Mark ^b   Tucker, Matthew G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Cambridge Escience Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UK's National Institute for Environmental eScience   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RELAXATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; MOLECULAR SIMULATION; TESTBED PROJECT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; MIDDLEWARE; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 28244459178     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2005.116     Document Type: Review

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