Transparent resource allocation to exploit idle cluster nodes in computational grids

Proceedings - First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, e-Science 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 238-245

  Netto, Marco A S ^a   Calheiros, Rodrigo N ^b   Silva, Rafael K S ^b   De Rose, César A F ^c   Northfleet, Caio ^d   Cirne, Walfredo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Research Center in High Performance Computing   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d Hewlett Packard   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; UTILITY PROGRAMS;

CLUSTER NODES; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; E-SCIENTISTS; UTILIZATION RATES;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 33846304274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2005.83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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