A standards based approach to enabling legacy applications on the Grid

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 731-743

  Stephen McGough, A ^a   Lee, William ^b   Das, Shikta ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b InforSense Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c Voluntary Work   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grid; GridSAM; JSDL; OGSA BES; Standards; Workflow

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; MIDDLEWARE;

GRIDSAM; WORKFLOW;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 44149086841     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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