Using the memory channel network

IEEE Micro

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-25

  Gillett, Richard ^a,b,c   Kaufmann, Richard ^a,d,e  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c IEEE   (United States)

^d IEEE Computer Society ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CODING ERRORS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; DATA TRANSFER; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); UNIX;

LATENCY; LOCK ACQUISITION; LOCK RELEASE; MEMORY CHANNEL; MESSAGE PASSING; MESSAGE SIZE; RAW MESSAGE PASSING; UNIVERSAL MESSAGE PASSING;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0030737258     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/40.566189     Document Type: Article

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