Transparently Obtaining Scalability for Java Applications on a Cluster

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1159-1193

  Aridor, Yariv ^a   Factor, Michael ^a   Teperman, Avi ^a   Eilam, Tamar ^b   Schuster, Assaf ^b  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cluster; Java; Java virtual machine; distributed computing; scalability; high performance computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041371235     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.2000.1649     Document Type: Article

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