Efficient termination detection for loosely synchronous applications in multicomputers

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 537-544

  Xu, Chengzhong ^a,b   Lau, Francis C M ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Data parallelism; Distributed algorithms; Interconnection networks; Multicomputers; Parallel and distributed systems; Synchronous computations; Termination detection

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DATA PARALLELISM; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; SYNCHRONOUS COMPUTATIONS; TERMINATION DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030145439     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.503778     Document Type: Article

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