Supporting simulation in industry through the application of grid computing

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1077-1085

  Mustafee, Navonil ^a   Taylor, Simon J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCHES; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; COMPUTING RESOURCES; DESKTOP GRIDS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANKS; GRID TECHNOLOGIES; LARGE SCALE SCIENTIFIC SIMULATIONS; MODEL SIMULATIONS; MULTIPLE COMPUTERS; MULTIPLE SETS; USERS ACCESS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; INVESTMENTS; RESEARCH;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 60749085028     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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