Using multicast to pre-load jobs on the ParPar cluster

Parallel Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 315-327

  Kavas, Avi ^a   Er El, David ^a   Feitelson, Dror G ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; MULTICASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

MASTER-NODES STRUCTURES; MULTICAST PROTOCOLS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035246935     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(00)00101-0     Document Type: Article

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