Entropia: Architecture and performance of an enterprise desktop grid system

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 597-610

  Chien, Andrew ^a,b   Calder, Brad ^a,b   Elbert, Stephen ^b   Bhatia, Karan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Entropia Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Grid computing; High throughput computing; Scientific computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344641071     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-7315(03)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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