Quantifying the performance differences between PVM and TreadMarks

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 65-78

  Lu, Honghui ^a   Dwarkadas, Sandhya ^b   Cox, Alan L ^a   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

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EID: 0031570639     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1997.1332     Document Type: Article

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