Increasing GP computing power for free via desktop GRID computing and virtualization

Proceedings of the 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 419-423

  González, Daniel Lombraña ^a   De Vega, Francisco Fernández ^a   Trujillo, Leonardo ^b   Olague, Gustavo ^b   Araujo, Lourdes ^c   Castillo̧, Pedro ^d   Merelo̧, Juan Julián ^d   Sharman, Ken ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING POWER; DESKTOP GRID COMPUTING; SOURCE CODES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 70349157676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2009.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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