Per-node multithreading and remote latency

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 414-426

  Thitikamol, Kritchalach ^a,b   Keleher, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

DSM; Latency toleration; Multithreading

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY (DSM); PER NODE MULTITHREADING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032046931     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.675711     Document Type: Article

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