The parallel 'Deutschland-Modell' - A message-passing version for distributed memory computers

Parallel Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 2215-2226

  Schättler, Ulrich ^a   Krenzien, Elisabeth ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed memory computers; Load imbalances; Message passing; Scalability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY PARALLEL COMPUTERS; MESSAGE PASSING LIBRARIES;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031352316     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(97)00110-5     Document Type: Article

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