Using clouds to provide grids with higher levels of abstraction and explicit support for usage modes

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1087-1108

  Jha, Shantenu ^a,b   Merzky, Andre ^a   Fox, Geoffrey ^c  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstractions; Affinity; Cloud; Distributed computing; Distributed infrastructure; Grid; Interfaces

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

ABSTRACTIONS; AFFINITY; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE; GRID; GRIDS AND CLOUDS; HIGHER-LEVEL ABSTRACTION; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 67949083625     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1406     Document Type: Article

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