Building an automated and self-configurable emulation testbed for grid applications

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 405-429

  Calheiros, Rodrigo N ^a,b   Buyya, Rajkumar ^b   De Rose, César A F ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emulation; Grid computing; Systems management; Virtual machines mapping; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MAPPING; CONTROLLED TESTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EMULATION FRAMEWORK; GRID APPLICATIONS; GRID COMPUTING SYSTEMS; NETWORK CONDITION; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT; SELF-CONFIGURABLE; VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURES; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MACHINE DESIGN; MAPPING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 77953005331     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.964     Document Type: Article

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