A Grid-based Virtual Reactor: Parallel performance and adaptive load balancing

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 596-608

  Korkhov, Vladimir V ^a,b   Krzhizhanovskaya, Valeria V ^a,b   Sloot, P M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Adaptive load balancing; Benchmarking; Grid; Heterogeneous resources; PECVD; Virtual Reactor

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ADAPTIVE LOAD BALANCING; GRID RESOURCES; HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES; VIRTUAL REACTORS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 41449089996     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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