Parallel computing in networks of workstations with paralex

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 371-384

  Davoli, Renzo ^a,b   Giachini, Luigi Alberto ^b   Babaoglu, Özalp ^b   Amoroso, Alessandro ^b   Alvisi, Lorenzo ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Graphical programming; Heterogeneity; Large grain data flow; Load balancing; Parallelism; Speed up; Supercomputing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; USER INTERFACES;

GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING; HETEROGENEITY; LARGE GRAIN DATA FLOW; LOAD BALANCING; PARALEX;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030125224     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.494632     Document Type: Article

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