BigBatch: A document processing platform for clusters and grids

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 434-441

  Mattos, Giorgia ^a   De Araújo Formiga, Andrei ^a   Lins, Rafael Dueire ^a   Martins, Fernando Mário Junqueira ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cluster; Grid; Image processing; Load balancing

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

CLUSTER; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; EXECUTION TIMES; GRID; GRID CONFIGURATIONS; LOAD-BALANCING; PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS; PROCESSING PLATFORMS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 56749164302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1363686.1363792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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