Design and evaluation of Opal2: A toolkit for scientific software as a service

SERVICES 2009 - 5th 2009 World Congress on Services

Volumn , Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 709-716

  Krishnan, Sriram ^a   Clementi, Luca ^a   Ren, Jingyuan ^a   Papadopoulos, Philip ^a   Li, Wilfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Grid computing; Service oriented architectures

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPLEX TASK; CUSTOMIZABLE; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING; PLUG-INS; RESEARCH AREAS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WORK-FLOWS;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION SERVICES; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); WEB SERVICES;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 72849140117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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