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GRID COMPUTING
GRID 2000: The First IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing.
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Rajkumar Buyya
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Monash University, C5.10, Caulfield Campus
Melbourne, VIC 3145, Australia
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Email: rajkumar@csse.monash.edu.au
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