Grid workflow: a flexible failure handling framework for the grid

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 126-137

  Hwang, Soonwook ^a   Kesselman, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Computational modeling; Data security; Grid computing; High performance computing; Internet; Personal communication networks; Prototypes; Supercomputers; Workstations

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FAILURE RECOVERY MECHANISM; FAILURE-HANDLING FRAMEWORK; GRID WORKFLOW SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PROTOTYPES; WORKFLOW STRUCTURES;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 67649921200     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2003.1210023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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