Distributed replica-exchange simulations on production environments using SAGA and Migol

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 253-260

  Luckow, André ^a   Jha, Shantenu ^b,c   Kim, Joohyun ^b   Merzky, Andre ^b   Schnor, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

^c E Science Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; FAULT TOLERANCE; MIDDLEWARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ABSTRACTION LAYERS; ADAPTIVE MIDDLEWARES; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; CHECKPOINT AND RECOVERIES; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED JOBS; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS; FAULT-TOLERANT; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; REPLICA-EXCHANGE SIMULATIONS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; TIME TO SOLUTIONS;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 62749196227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2008.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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