Scalability of a workstation cluster architecture for video-on-demand applications

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

Volumn 1786, Issue , 2000, Pages 277-293

  Hughes, Peter H ^a,b   Brataas, Gunnar ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Modicum Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c Clustra AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SCALABILITY; STATIC ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE; CLUSTERS OF WORKSTATIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKS; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; MEASUREMENT EXPERIMENTS; VIDEO ON DEMANDS (VOD); VIDEO-ON-DEMAND APPLICATIONS; WORKSTATION CLUSTERS;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 23044518700     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46429-8_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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