Metacomputing in gigabit environments: Networks, tools, and applications

Parallel Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 12-13, 1998, Pages 1847-1872

  Eickermann, Th ^a   Henrichs, J ^a   Resch, M ^b   Stoy, R ^b   Volpel R ^c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gigabit networking; Heterogeneous metacomputing; Load balancing; MPI; Transatlantic metacomputing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SUPERCOMPUTERS;

GIGABIT NETWORKING; HETEROGENEOUS METACOMPUTING; LOAD BALANCING; TRANSATLANTIC METACOMPUTING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032208192     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(98)00081-7     Document Type: Article

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