Rationale and strategy for a 21st century scientific computing architecture: The case for using commercial symmetric multiprocessors as supercomputers

International Journal of High Speed Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 191-222

  Johnston, William E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Commodity processors; Intra cluster networks; Supercomputers; Symmetric multiprocessors

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542593173     PISSN: 01290533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129053397000131     Document Type: Article

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