The RHODOS migration facility

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-65

  De Paoli, Damien ^a   Goscinski, Andrzej ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

NETWORKS OF WORKSTATIONS (NOW); PROCESS MIGRATION FACILITY;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031680896     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(97)00014-9     Document Type: Article

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