The requirements of a high performance implementation of PVM

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 3-11

  Bernaschi, Massimo ^a  

^a IBM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication protocols; Memory management techniques; Programming model; System overhead

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAMMING THEORY; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

MEMORY MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE; PROGRAMMING MODEL; SYSTEM OVERHEAD;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0030145002     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-739X(96)84675-9     Document Type: Article

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