On the design and implementation of broadcast and global combine operations using the postal model

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 256-265

  Bruck, Jehoshua ^a,b   De Coster, Luc ^c   Dewulf, Natalie ^c   Ho, Ching Tien ^a,d   Lauwereins, Rudy ^c  

^a IEEE

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadcast; Collective communication; Complete graph; Global combine; Postal model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BROADCASTING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATION; COMPLETE GRAPH; GLOBAL COMBINE; POSTAL MODEL;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030110074     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.491579     Document Type: Article

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