SoftFLASH: Analyzing the performance of clustered distributed virtual shared memory

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 210-220

  Erlichson, Andrew ^a   Nuckolls, Neal ^b   Chesson, Greg ^b   Hennessy, John ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

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EID: 17044439815     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/248209.237187     Document Type: Article

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