Virtualizing high performance computing

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 136-145

  Simons, Joshua E ^a   Buell, Jeffrey ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; HPC; Resilience; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE; DYNAMIC PROVISIONING; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HPC; JOB MIGRATION; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PROACTIVE APPLICATIONS; RESILIENCE; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650755219     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1899928.1899946     Document Type: Article

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