Belle-DIRAC Setup for Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-79

  Graciani Diaz, Ricardo ^a   Casajus Ramo, Adria ^a   Carmona Agüero, Ana ^a   Fifield, Thomas ^b   Sevior, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud; DIRAC; Grid; Integration; Interoperability

Indexed keywords

B MESONS; BELLE DETECTORS; BELLE EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTING ACTIVITY; COMPUTING SOLUTIONS; CPU TIME; DIRAC; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE; GRID; HIGH-ENERGY ACCELERATOR; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER; MANAGEMENT TOOL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; REMOTE AGENTS; RESEARCH ORGANIZATION; SERVICE PROVIDER; SIMULATED DATA; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; STATISTICAL DATAS; TECHNICAL DESIGN; TOTAL COSTS; USER COMMUNITIES; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HADRONS; INTEROPERABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79952444924     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-010-9175-7     Document Type: Article

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