Massively parallel computing using commodity components

Parallel Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 243-266

  Brightwell, Ron ^a   Fisk, Lee Ann ^a   Greenberg, David S ^b   Hudson, Tramm ^a   Levenhagen, Mike ^a   Maccabe, Arthur B ^c   Riesen, Rolf ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b IDA/CCS   (United States)

^c University of NewMexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING (MPP) MACHINES;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033880258     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(99)00104-0     Document Type: Article

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