Kittyhawk: Enabling cooperation and competition in a global, shared computational system

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Appavoo, Jonathan ^a   Uhlig, Volkmar ^a   Waterland, Amos ^a   Rosenburg, Bryan ^a   Silva, Dilma Da ^a   Moreira, José E ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; COMPUTING RESOURCE; COOPERATION AND COMPETITIONS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955062463     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2009.5429063     Document Type: Article

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