Virtual clusters on the fly - Fast, scalable, and flexible installation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 549-556

  Nishimura, Hideo ^a   Maruyama, Naoya ^a   Matsuoka, Satoshi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA TRANSFER; SCALABILITY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CUSTOMIZABILITY; DISK IMAGES; FLEXIBLE INSTALLATION; VIRTUAL CLUSTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 34548357070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2007.121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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