Experiences understanding performance in a commercial scale-out environment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4641 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 139-149

  Wisniewski, Robert W ^a   Azimi, Reza ^b   Desnoyers, Mathieu ^c   Michael, Maged M ^a   Moreira, Jose ^a   Shiloach, Doron ^a   Soares, Livio ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMMERCIAL COMPUTING; LOOSELY CONNECTED MACHINES; SCALE-OUT ENVIRONMENT;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 38049161642     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74466-5_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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