Optimal communication performance on fast ethernet with GAMMA

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1388, Issue , 1998, Pages 534-548

  Ciaccio, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active messages; Fast ethernet; Inter process communication; Network of workstations; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COSTS; ETHERNET; MESSAGE PASSING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ACTIVE MESSAGE; FAST ETHERNET; INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION; NETWORK OF WORKSTATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 22044450167     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-64359-1_726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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