Millennium sort: A cluster-based application for windows NT using DCOM, river primitives and the virtual interface architecture

3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Buonadonna, Philip ^a   Coates, Joshua ^a   Low, Spencer ^a   Culler, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; MIDDLEWARE; RIVERS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

CLUSTER TECHNOLOGY; CLUSTER-BASED; DISTRIBUTED COMPONENT OBJECT MODEL; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SORTING; RIVER SYSTEMS; THREE-LAYER; VIRTUAL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0006843027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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