Incorporating job migration and network RAM to share cluster memory resources

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 71-78

  Xiao, L ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Kubricht, S A ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer networks; Computer science; Delay; Educational institutions; Military computing; Random access memory; Read write memory; Sun; Telecommunication traffic; Workstations

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; SCALABILITY; SUN; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA HANDLING; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

CLUSTER OF WORKSTATIONS; DELAY; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; LOAD SHARING SYSTEMS; MILITARY COMPUTING; RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; WORKSTATION CLUSTERS;

RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; EXECUTION TIME; JOB MIGRATION; LOAD SHARING SYSTEM;

EID: 0033700369     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2000.868636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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