Using clouds for technical computing

Advances in Parallel Computing

Volumn 23, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-102

  Fox, Geoffrey ^a   Gannon, Dennis ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Azure; Clouds; HPC; Programming Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895162017     PISSN: 09275452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-322-3-81     Document Type: Article

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