A Load Balancing Framework for Adaptive and Asynchronous Applications

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-192

  Barker, Kevin ^a   Chernikov, Andrey ^a   Chrisochoides, Nikos ^a   Pingali, Keshav ^b  

^a William and Mary   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive and irregular applications; Distributed, and Grid computing; Dynamic load balancing; Message passing; Multithreading; Parallel; Parallel mesh generation; Runtime support software; Scientific computing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE AND IRREGULAR APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING; GRID COMPUTING; MESSAGE PASSING; MULTITHREADING; PARALLEL MESH GENERATION; RUNTIME SUPPORT SOFTWARE;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 1342282165     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2004.1264800     Document Type: Article

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