NestStep: Nested parallelism and virtual shared memory for the BSP model

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 245-262

  Keßler, Christoph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATA TRANSFER; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); VIRTUAL STORAGE;

BULK-SYNCHRONOUS PARALLEL (BSP) MODELS; VIRTUAL JAVA MACHINES;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 14544279754     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026511306490     Document Type: Article

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