Reliability in grid computing systems

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 927-959

  Dabrowski, Christopher ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependability; Fault tolerance; Grid computing; Grid computing system; Reliability

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; RELIABILITY; SPECIFICATIONS; SURVEYS;

DEPENDABILITY; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; GRID COMPUTING SYSTEMS; GRID TECHNOLOGIES; RELIABILITY METHODS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 67949091205     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1410     Document Type: Article

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