Management of a parameter sweep for scientific applications on cluster environments

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 2381-2400

  Youn, Choonhan ^a   Kaiser, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake modeling simulation; Grid computing; Parameter sweep; Web services

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKES; MIDDLEWARE; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

CLUSTER ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; EARTHQUAKE MODELING; EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION; PARAMETER SWEEP; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 78449297921     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1563     Document Type: Article

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