Metadata management for distributed first principles calculations in VLab-A collaborative cyberinfrastructure for materials computation

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 186-198

  da Silveira, Pedro R C ^a   da Silva, Cesar R S ^a   Wentzcovitch, Renata M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational materials science; Distributed computing; First principles calculations; Grid computing; Grids; Metadata; Metadata management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GRID COMPUTING; METADATA;

COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; MATERIALS COMPUTATION; METADATA MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38149124649     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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