Practical experience from porting and executing the Wien2k application on the EGEE production grid infrastructure

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-279

  Berger, Maximilian ^a   Fahringer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Grid; Pilot; Wien2k; Worker; Workflow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION NODES; COMPUTATION POWER; DATA REUSE; GENERIC METHOD; GRID ENVIRONMENTS; GRID INFRASTRUCTURES; GRID WORKFLOWS; OPTIMISATIONS; PEER TO PEER; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES; SPECIAL APPLICATIONS; STORAGE ELEMENTS; WORKFLOW ENGINES;

DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77952427173     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-010-9156-x     Document Type: Article

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