A slowdown model for applications executing on time-shared clusters of workstations

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 653-670

  Figueira, Silvia M ^a   Berman, Francine ^b,c  

^a Santa Clara University   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application slowdown; Data parallel applications; Networks of workstations; Performance prediction; Time shared clusters of workstations

Indexed keywords

TIME-SHARED MULTI-USER CLUSTERS;

MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TIME SHARING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS;

EID: 0035365573     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.932718     Document Type: Article

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