Experience of building a high-fidelity mobile crane simulator with cluster of desktop computers

Proceedings - 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 402-407

  Huang, Jiung Yao ^a   Bai, Hua Hsen ^a   Tai, Chi Fu ^b   Gau, Chung Yun ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SIMULATORS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION ENVIRONMENTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTATION; HIGH-FIDELITY; INTERACTIVE SIMULATORS; MOBILE CRANES; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; VISUAL SIMULATOR;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038021715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDCS.2001.918737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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