Load balancing across a highly heterogeneous processor cluster using file status probes

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 911-918

  Zeng, Xiaoxian ^a   McMechan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D imaging; 3 D ray tracing; Kirchhoff depth migration; Load balancing; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADAR; UNIX;

KIRCHOFF MIGRATION;

GEOLOGY;

DEPTH DETERMINATION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; RAY TRACING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 0036776334     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(02)00008-0     Document Type: Article

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