Evaluating the reliability of computational grids from the end user's point of view

Journal of Systems Architecture

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 727-736

  Huedo, Eduardo ^a   Montero, Rubén S ^a   Llorente, Ignacio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Globus Toolkit; Grid computing; GridWay meta scheduler; Quality of service

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OUTAGES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RELIABILITY;

GLOBUS TOOLKIT; GRID COMPUTING; GRID ENVIRONMENTS; GRIDWAY META SCHEDULER;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 33750622337     PISSN: 13837621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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