Memory ushering in a scalable computing cluster

Microprocessors and Microsystems

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 175-182

  Barak, Amnon ^a   Braverman, Avner ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Memory sharing; Mulicomputer operating system; Resource management; Scalable computing cluster

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

COMPUTING CLUSTERS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0032140969     PISSN: 01419331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-9331(98)00077-5     Document Type: Article

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