Falcon: On-line monitoring for steering parallel programs

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 699-736

  Gu, Weiming ^a   Eisenhauer, Greg ^b   Schwan, Karsten ^b   Vetter, Jeffrey ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032139230     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(19980810)10:9<699::AID-CPE367>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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