The impact of soft resource allocation on n-tier application scalability

Proceedings - 25th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1034-1045

  Wang, Qingyang ^a   Malkowski, Simon ^a   Jayasinghe, Deepal ^a   Xiong, Pengcheng ^a   Pu, Calton ^a   Kanemasa, Yasuhiko ^b   Kawaba, Motoyuki ^b   Harada, Lilian ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

bottleneck; configuration; n tier; parallel processing; scalability; soft resource

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECK; CONFIGURATION; N-TIER; PARALLEL PROCESSING; SOFT RESOURCE;

COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; LAKES; MIDDLEWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCALABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 80053276087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2011.99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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