Availability modeling and analysis on high performance cluster computing systems

Proceedings - First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 305-312

  Song, Hertong ^a   Leangsuksun, Chokchai ^a   Nassar, Raja ^a   Gottumukkala, Narasimha Raju ^a   Scott, Stephen ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING POWER; EVENT MONITORING; SYSTEM MONITORING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750936415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARES.2006.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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