High performance cloud computing

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1408-1416

  Mauch, Viktor ^a   Kunze, Marcel ^a   Hillenbrand, Marius ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; HPC; IaaS; InfiniBand

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CLUSTER COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES; CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; IAAS; INFINIBAND; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNIQUES;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 84886768467     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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