How to measure a large open-source distributed system

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1989-2019

  Thain, Douglas ^a   Tannenbaum, Todd ^b   Livny, Miron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Condor; Distributed systems; Mapping; Measurement; Open source; Survey

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTRACTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PURCHASING;

CONDOR; SOFTWARE PACKAGE; USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL (UDP); VOLUNTARY USER SURVEY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33751373240     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1041     Document Type: Article

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