ComBos: A complete simulator of Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 77, Issue , 2017, Pages 197-211

  Alonso Monsalve, Saúl ^a   García Carballeira, Félix ^a   Calderón, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

BOINC; Desktop Grids; Simulation; Throughput; Volunteer Computing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ASTROPHYSICS; GRID COMPUTING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MIDDLEWARE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SIMULATORS; THROUGHPUT;

BOINC; DESKTOP GRID; DESKTOP GRID COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; REALISTIC SCENARIO; SIMULATION; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 85021114792     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2017.06.002     Document Type: Article

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