Design study of alternative network topologies for the Beowulf parallel workstation

IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 626-635

  Reschke, Chance ^a   Sterling, Thomas ^a   Ridge, Daniel ^a   Savarese, Daniel ^a   Becker, Donald ^a   Merkey, Phillip ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PACKET NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BEOWULF PARALLEL WORKSTATION; INTERCONNECT TOPOLOGIES; INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATIONS; SOFTWARE ROUTING TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS;

EID: 0029727246     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.1996.546233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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