Towards a volunteer cloud system

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1442-1451

  Marosi, Attila ^a   Kovács, József ^a   Kacsuk, Peter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cloud; Desktop grid; Virtualization; Volunteer computing

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GRID COMPUTING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION;

APPLICATION CLIENTS; DESKTOP GRID; NETWORK COMPUTING; PARAMETER SWEEP APPLICATION; SERVICE GRIDS; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION; VOLUNTEER CLOUDS; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84886784040     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.03.013     Document Type: Article

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