Dynamic load-balancing of image processing applications on clusters of workstations

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1477-1492

  Hamdi, M ^a   Lee, C K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data parallel; Load balancing; Networks of workstations; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CLUSTER BASED COMPUTING; DATA PARALLEL COMPUTING; LOAD BALANCING STRATEGY;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030783993     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(96)00054-3     Document Type: Article

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