Fast messages: Efficient, portable communication for workstation clusters and MPPs

IEEE Concurrency

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 60-72

  Pakin, Scott ^a,b,c,d,e   Karamcheti, Vijay ^a,b,e,f,g,h   Chien, Andrew A ^a,e,f,i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Andrew Chien's Concurrent Syst A   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IEEE   (United States)

^e University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^f University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

ⁱ Natl Ctr Supercomputing Applic ^*  (United States)

^j MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MULTIPROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION LAYER; FAST MESSAGES (FM); HIGH SPEED EXTERNAL NETWORKING; INTRACLUSTER COMMUNICATION; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSORS (MPP);

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031124657     PISSN: 10923063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4434.588295     Document Type: Article

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