An evaluation identifying features of unified distributed programming

Computer Systems Science and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 311-321

  Yeung, Daniel S ^a   Wong, A K Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Performance; Unified distributed programming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MULTIPROGRAMMING;

FEATURE IDENTIFICATION; UNIFIED DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032157656     PISSN: 02676192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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