Using TOP-C and AMPIC to port large parallel applications to the Computational Grid

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 587-596

  Cooperman, Gene ^a   Casanova, Henri ^b,c   Hayes, Jim ^b   Witzel, Thomas ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPIC; Computational Grid; Geant4; Master worker parallelism; TOP C

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0344951061     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(03)00037-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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