Native and generic parallel programming environments on a transputer and a PowerPC platform

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-46

  Hoekstra, A G ^a   Sloot, P M A ^a   Van Der Linden, F ^a   Van Muiswinkel, M ^a   Vesseur, J J J ^a   Hertzberger, L O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TRANSPUTERS;

COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; DEGREES OF FUNCTIONALITY; GLOBAL COMMUNICATION; PARALLEL PROGRAMMERS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; POINT TO POINT COMMUNICATION; PROGRAMMABILITY;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029733337     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199601)8:1<19::AID-CPE193>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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