Resource usage of Windows computer laboratories

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 469-476

  Domingues, Patricio ^a   Marques, Paulo ^b   Silva, Luis ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CLASSROOM LABORATORIES; RESOURCE USAGE; UNUSED MEMORY; WINDOWS COMPUTER LABORATORIES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745206523     PISSN: 15302016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPPW.2005.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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