Defining and controlling the heterogeneity of a cluster: The Wrekavoc tool

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 786-802

  Canon, Louis Claude ^a,b,c   Dubuisson, Olivier ^b,d   Gustedt, Jens ^b   Jeannot, Emmanuel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

^d Felix Informatique ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Emulation; Heterogeneous systems; Performance modeling; Tool for experimentation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; HOMOGENEOUS CLUSTER; MULTI-SITE; REPRODUCIBILITIES; VERSATILE TOOLS;

OVERLAY NETWORKS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77649236298     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.11.734     Document Type: Article

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