Decentralized remapping of data parallel applications in distributed memory multiprocessors

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1351-1376

  Xu, Chengzhong ^a   Lau, Francis C M ^b   Diekmann, Ralf ^c  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

DECENTRALIZED REMAPPING; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS; GENERALIZED DIMENSION EXCHANGE ALGORITHM;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031383079     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199712)9:12<1351::AID-CPE283>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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