LoPC: Modeling Contention in Parallel Algorithms

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 276-287

  Frank, Matthew I ^b   Agarwal, Anant ^b   Vernon, Mary K ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0346675723     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/263767.263803     Document Type: Article

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