A decentralized and fault-tolerant Desktop Grid system for distributed applications

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-277

  Abbes, Heithem ^a,b   Cérin, Christophe ^a   Jemni, Mohamed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Desktop grid; Distributed applications; Friend tasks; Isolated tasks; PastryGrid; RDV; Shared tasks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

DESKTOP GRID; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; FRIEND TASKS; ISOLATED TASKS; PASTRYGRID; SHARED TASKS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 76649138578     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1477     Document Type: Article

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