KOALA: A co-allocating grid scheduler

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1851-1876

  Mohamed, Hashim ^a   Epema, Dick ^a  

^a Department of Microelectronics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Co allocation; Grid computing; Performance; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS; SCHEDULING; TESTBEDS;

CO-ALLOCATION; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; MANAGING RESOURCES; MULTICLUSTER SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITIES; RELIABILITY PROBLEMS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 55349132390     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1268     Document Type: Article

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