Design of a simulator of heterogeneous computing environments

Simulation Practice and Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 97-117

  Aversa, R ^a   Mazzocca, N ^a   Villano, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous computing; Performance evaluation; PVM; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030142004     PISSN: 09284869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-4869(95)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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