Non-dedicated distributed environment: A solution for safe and continuous exploitation of idle cycles

Scalable Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 107-115

  Novaes, R C ^a   Roisenberg P ^a   Scheer, R ^a   Northfleet, C ^a   Jornada, J H ^a   Cirne W ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Grid computing; Idle cycles; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; IDLE CYCLES; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PROCESSING POWER; VIRTUAL RESOURCE;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 85071616417     PISSN: 18951767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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