high performance Spreadsheet Simulation on a desktop Grid

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 663-670

  Pichitlamken, Juta ^a   Kajkamhaeng, Supasit ^a   Uthayopas, Putchong ^a  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING POWER; DESKTOP GRIDS; EFFICIENT SYSTEMS; END USERS; EXECUTION TIME; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS; SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS; SIMULATION TIME; SPREADSHEET SIMULATIONS;

INFORMATION SERVICES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SPREADSHEETS; STANDARDIZATION; WEB SERVICES;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 60849112292     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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