A Network-Failure-Tolerant Message-Passing System for Terascale Clusters

International Journal of Parallel Programming

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 285-303

  Graham, Richard L ^a   Choi, Sung Eun ^a   Daniel, David J ^a   Desai, Nehal N ^a   Minnich, Ronald G ^a   Rasmussen, Craig E ^a   Dean Risinger, L ^a   Sukalski, Mitchel W ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACES (MPI); NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS (NIC);

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 0347133226     PISSN: 08857458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024504726988     Document Type: Article

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