Virtualizing access to scientific applications with the Application Hosting Environment

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 180, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2513-2525

  Zasada, S J ^a   Coveney, P V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grid application virtualization; Grid computing; Grid middleware; Grid usability; High performance computing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION HOSTING; BLOOD FLOW; CATALOGUE IDENTIFIERS; CLINICAL USE; COMMON PLATFORM; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAM; GRID APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION; GRID APPLICATIONS; GRID MIDDLEWARE; GRID USABILITY; GRID-BASED; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESOURCES; IRELAND; LIGHTWEIGHT MIDDLEWARE; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RUNNING TIME; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SOLUTION METHODS; TEST DATA; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CANNING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA DESCRIPTION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MIDDLEWARE; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; TEST FACILITIES;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 70350604270     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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