Reusable coordinator modules for massively concurrent applications

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 703-735

  Arbab, F ^a   Blom, C L ^a   Burger, F J ^a   Everaars, C T H ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coordination; Distributed computation; Parallism; Performance measurements; Reusability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MANIFOLD PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REUSABLE COORDINATOR MODULES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0032097182     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199807)28:7<703::AID-SPE173>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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