A large-scale metacomputing framework for the ModSAF real-time simulation

Parallel Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 12-13, 1998, Pages 1873-1900

  Brunett, Sharon ^a   Gottschalk, Thomas ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Interest management; Metacomputing; Scalable communications; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED INTERACTIVE SIMULATION; METACOMPUTING; SCALABLE PARALLEL PROCESSORS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032208331     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(98)00082-9     Document Type: Article

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