GSSIM - A tool for distributed computing experiments

Scientific Programming

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 231-251

  Ba̧k, Sławomir ^a   Krystek, Marcin ^a   Kurowski, Krzysztof ^a   Oleksiak, Ariel ^a   Pia̧tek, Wojciech ^a   Wȩglarz, Jan ^a,b  

^a POZNAN SUPERCOMPUTING AND NETWORKING CENTER   (Poland)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; resource management; scheduling; simulations

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SCHEDULING; SIMULATORS; TOOLS;

ADVANCE RESERVATION; ADVANCED SIMULATION; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; GRID SCHEDULING; REMOTE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATION TOOL; SIMULATIONS; WEB TOOLS; WORKLOAD GENERATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 83755225759     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SPR-2011-0332     Document Type: Article

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