Efficient message passing on UNIX shared memory multiprocessors

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 443-449

  Bernaschi, Massimo ^a,b  

^a IBM   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Message passing; PowerPC; PVM; Shared memory

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); UNIX;

SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032073474     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(98)00003-X     Document Type: Article

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