High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations

SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data)

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 243-254

  Arpaci Dusseau, Andrea C ^a   Arpaci Dusseau, Remzi H ^a   Culler, David E ^a   Hellerstein, Joseph M ^a   Patterson, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA PROCESSING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SORTING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

NETWORK OF WORKSTATIONS (NOW); SHARED MEMORY PARALLEL COMPUTERS (SMP);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031169298     PISSN: 01635808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/253262.253322     Document Type: Article

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