Expanding the Reach of Grid Computing: Combining Globus- and BOINC-Based Systems

Grid Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 71-85

  Myers, Daniel S ^a   Bazinet, Adam L ^a   Cummings, Michael P ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Application programming interface (API); Grid computing systems and grid security infrastructure (GSI); Portable batch system (PBS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889972857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470191637.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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