SPEED: A parallel platform for solving and predicting the performance of PDEs on distributed systems

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 537-568

  Hui, Chi Chung ^a   Hamdi, Mounir ^a   Ahmad, Ishfaq ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERFORMANCE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS; TWO PHASE ALGORITHMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030243741     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199609)8:7<537::AID-CPE225>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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