Developing applications for heterogeneous computing environments using simulation: A case study

Parallel Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 741-761

  Aversa, R ^a   Mazzeo, A ^a   Mazzocca, N ^b   Villano, U ^c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous and network computing; Performance evaluation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKED COMPUTING; WORKLOAD SHARING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032095260     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(98)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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