Architectural support for system software on large-scale clusters

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 519-526

  Fernánde, Juan ^a,b   Frachtenberg, Eitan ^b   Petrini, Fabrizio ^b   Davis, Kei ^b   Sancho, José C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Cluster operating system; Debuggability; Fault tolerance; Network hardware; Resource management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; CLUSTER OPERATING SYSTEM; DUBUGGABILITY; NETWORK HARDWARE; RESONANCE MANAGEMENT;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044248764     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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