The ParaStation project: Using workstations as building blocks for parallel computing

Information Sciences

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 277-292

  Warschko, Thomas M ^a   Blum, Joachim M ^a   Tichy, Walter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

High speed interconnects; Parallel and distributed computing; User level communication; Workstation cluster

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MULTIPROGRAMMING; USER INTERFACES;

USER-LEVEL COMMUNICATION; WORKSTATION CLUSTER;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032068925     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(97)10015-9     Document Type: Article

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