The implementation of dynamite - An environment for migrating PVM tasks

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 40-55

  Iskra, K A ^a   Van Der Linden, F ^a   Hendrikse, Z W ^a   Overeinder, B J ^a   Van Albada, G D ^a   Sloot, P M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Message passing; PVM; Task migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002662555     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/506117.506123     Document Type: Article

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