An implementation and analysis of the virtual interface architecture

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 1998-November, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Buonadonna, Philip ^a   Geweke, Andrew ^a   Culler, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Virtual interface architecture cluster system area network interconnect user level

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

CLUSTERED COMPUTING; CLUSTERS SYSTEM; NETWORK INTERCONNECTS; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH STUDIES; SYSTEM AREA NETWORKS; USER LEVELS; VIRTUAL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE CLUSTER SYSTEM-AREA NETWORK INTERCONNECT USER-LEVEL;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0343829575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.1998.10052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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