GEMS: Gossip-Enabled Monitoring Service for scalable heterogeneous distributed systems

Cluster Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-120

  Subramaniyan, Rajagopal ^a   Raman, Pirabhu ^a   George, Alan D ^a   Radlinski, Matthew ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; Fault tolerance; Gossip protocol; Grid; Probabilistic dissemination; Resource monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144478086     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-006-4900-5     Document Type: Article

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