Geocomputation's future at the extremes: High performance computing and nanoclients

Parallel Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1281-1295

  Clarke, K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geocomputation; High performance computing; Human computer interface; Nanoclient; Tractability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SERVERS;

GEOCOMPUTATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141749115     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2003.03.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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