Parameterisation to tailor commodity clusters to applications

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 111-120

  Gruber, Ralf ^a   Volgers, Pieter ^b   De Vita, Alessandro ^a   Stengel, Massimiliano ^a   Tran, Trach Minh ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SMR Engineering Development   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Commodity computing; Scientific applications

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA TRANSFER; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CLUSTER COMPUTING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037211410     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(02)00105-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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