Build-and-test workloads for grid middleware: Problem, analysis, and applications

Proceedings - Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 205-213

  Iosup, Alexandru ^a   Epema, Dick ^a   Couvares, Peter ^b   Karp, Anatoly ^b   Livny, Miron ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SYSTEM-WIDE TRACE COVERING; TEST MANAGEMENT;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 34548295747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2007.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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