Nimrod (distributed computing)
id:
nimrod-distributed-computing-305-7855429
title:
Nimrod (distributed computing)
text:
Nimrod is a tool for the parametrization of serial programs to create and execute embarrassingly parallel programs over a computational grid. It is a co-allocating, scheduling and brokering service. Nimrod was one of the first tools to make use of heterogeneous resources in a grid for a single computation. It was also an early example of using a market economy to perform grid scheduling. This enables Nimrod to provide a guaranteed completion time despite using best-effort services. The tool was
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(distributed_computing)
date created:
date modified:
2023-02-06T21:35:25Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q17130771","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17130771"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
13