Multicloud deployment of computing clusters for loosely coupled MTC applications

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 924-930

  Moreno Vozmediano, Rafael ^a   Montero, Ruben S ^a   Llorente, Ignacio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; computing cluster; loosely coupled applications.; multicloud infrastructure

Indexed keywords

AMAZON EC2; CLUSTER NODES; COMPUTING CLUSTERS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; HIGH AVAILABILITY; IT ORGANIZATIONS; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; LOCAL DATA; LOOSELY COUPLED APPLICATIONS.; MULTICLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE; PROBLEM SIZE; SERVICE PLATFORMS; SIMULTANEOUS USE; SUN GRID ENGINES; TASK COMPUTING; UBIQUITOUS ACCESS;

CLOUDS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COSTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79955522563     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2010.186     Document Type: Article

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