Communication Optimizations for Parallel C Programs

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 301-332

  Zhu, Yingchun ^a   Hendren, Laurie J ^a,b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication optimizations; Compiling for parallel architectures; Multithreaded architectures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347600582     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1999.1554     Document Type: Article

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