Predictable quality of service atop degradable distributed systems

Cluster Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 321-334

  Ramakrishnan, Lavanya ^a   Reed, Daniel A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Grid and cloud resource management; Performability; Reliability; Workflow scheduling

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS; PERFORMABILITY; PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITIES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WORKFLOW SCHEDULING;

COSTS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SCHEDULING;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878507733     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: 15737543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-009-0078-y     Document Type: Article

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