Dynamic partitioning of non-uniform structured workloads with spacefilling curves

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 288-300

  Pilkington, John R ^b   Baden, Scott B ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed memory parallel computers; Dynamic load balancing; Irregular data partitioning; Non uniform computations; Particle methods; Performance; Spacefilling curve

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY PARALLEL COMPUTERS; DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING; IRREGULAR DATA PARTITIONING; NON-UNIFORM COMPUTATIONS; SPACE FILLING CURVE;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030105726     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.491582     Document Type: Article

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