Scalable cluster administration - Chiba City I approach and lessons learned

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 215-221

  Navarro, J P ^a   Evard, R ^a   Nurmi, D ^a   Desai, N ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic control; Cities and towns; Computer science; Hardware; Laboratories; Linux; Mathematics; Operating systems; Performance analysis; Software design

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONTROL; HARDWARE; LABORATORIES; LINUX; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS; ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY; CITIES AND TOWNS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DESIGNS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITIES; SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84948946109     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2002.1137749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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