Computing and data grids for science and engineering

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 2000-November, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Johnston, William E ^a   Gannon, Dennis ^a   Nitzberg, Bill ^b   Tanner, Leigh Ann ^a   Thigpen, Bill ^a   Woo, Alex ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Veridian Systems   (United States)

^c PBS Products ^*

Author keywords

Distributed computing architecture; Distributed resource management; Grids

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NASA;

COMPUTING GRID; DATA GRID; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; GRID; HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES; LOCATION INDEPENDENT; REMOTE INSTRUMENT CONTROL; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE-SYSTEMS;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 85117186139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2000.10007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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