GRAND: Toward scalability in a Grid environment

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1991-2009

  Vargas, Patrícia Kayser ^a,b,e   Dutra, Inês C ^a   Do Nascimento, Vinícius D ^a   Santos, Lucas A S ^c   Da Silva, Luciano C ^c   Geyer, Cláudio F R ^c   Schulze, Bruno ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Mestrado em Avaliacao de Impactos Ambientais em Mineracao Victor Barreto   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^e UNILASALLE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Application management; Grid computing; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); QUEUEING NETWORKS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SCALABILITY; SCHEDULING;

APPLICATION MANAGEMENT; JOB QUEUES; NETWORK TRAFFIC CONGESTION; SUBMISSION MACHINES;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 34548730161     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1138     Document Type: Article

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