Characterizing grids: Attributes, definitions, and formalisms

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-23

  Németh, Zsolt ^a   Sunderam, Vaidy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational grids; Distributed computing; Formal definitions

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT STATE MACHINES; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FORMAL DEFINITION; GRID SYSTEMS; RUNTIMES; STATIC CHARACTERISTIC;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042671610     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024011025052     Document Type: Article

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