Design and evaluation of an HPVM-based Windows NT supercomputer

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-219

  Chien, Andrew ^a   Lauria, M ^a   Pennington, R ^b   Showerman, M ^b   Iannello, G ^c   Buchanan, M ^d   Connelly, K ^d   Giannini, L ^d   Koenig, G ^d   Krishnamurthy, S ^d   Liu, Q ^d   Pakin, S ^d   Sampemane, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING;

CLUSTER MANAGEMENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE VIRTUAL MACHINE; PROGRAMMING INTERFACES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE WINDOWS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 0032593344     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109434209901300304     Document Type: Article

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