Converting a high performance application to an elastic cloud application

Proceedings - 2011 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 383-390

  Rajan, Dinesh ^a   Canino, Anthony ^a   Izaguirre, Jesus A ^a   Thain, Douglas ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON EC2; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTING FRAMEWORKS; COMPUTING MODEL; COMPUTING PLATFORM; DEDICATED HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING MODELS; HIGH PERFORMANCE APPLICATIONS; HOMOGENEOUS CLUSTER; MICROSOFT; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; PARALLEL TEMPERING; REPLICA EXCHANGE; RUNTIMES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SCALABILITY; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84857182724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2011.58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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