HTC scientific computing in a distributed cloud environment

ScienceCloud 2013 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 45-51

  Sobie, Randall ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a   Gable, Ian ^a   Leavett Brown, Colin ^a   Paterson, Michael ^a   Taylor, Ryan ^a   Charbonneau, Andre ^b   Impey, Roger ^b   Podiama, Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cloud computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING CAPACITY; COMPUTING SYSTEM; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED CLOUDS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT COMPUTING; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84880056368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2465848.2465850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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