Availability and utility of idle memory in workstation clusters

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-46

  Acharya, Anurag ^a   Setia, Sanjeev ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

WORKSTATION CLUSTERS;

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS;

EID: 0032679854     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/301464.301478     Document Type: Article

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