An assessment of a Beowulf system for a wide class of analysis and design software

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 29, Issue 3-6, 1998, Pages 451-461

  Katz, D S ^a   Cwik, T ^a   Kwan, B H ^a   Lou, J Z ^a   Springer, P L ^a   Sterling, T L ^a   Wang, P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

BEOWULF SYSTEMS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032042956     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9978(97)00083-5     Document Type: Article

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