Adaptive timeout discovery using the Network Weather Service

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 35-41

  Allen, M S ^a   Wolski, R ^a   Plank, J S ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Computer science; Degradation; Dynamic scheduling; Grid computing; Mesh generation; Processor scheduling; Programming profession; Testing; Weather forecasting

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DEGRADATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; MESH GENERATION; SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

APPLICATION LEVEL; DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; NETWORK WEATHER SERVICE; NON-PARAMETRIC; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; PROCESSOR SCHEDULING; PROGRAMMING PROFESSION; TEST APPLICATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 57849168212     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2002.1029901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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