A simple yet effective load balancing extension to the PVM software system

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1647-1660

  Jackson, David J ^a   Humphres, Chris W ^b  

^a The Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Load balancing; Parallel processing; Parallel virtual machine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); USER INTERFACES;

LOAD BALANCING PROCESS; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031078849     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(96)00061-0     Document Type: Article

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