Advanced workstation cluster architectures for parallel computing

Journal of Systems Architecture

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 207-226

  Hipper, G ^a   Tavangarian, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

BEOWULF PARALLEL WORKSTATION; CONCURRENT NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; MULTICOMPUTER SYSTEMS; WORKSTATION CLUSTER;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031341340     PISSN: 13837621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-7621(97)00037-4     Document Type: Article

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