A deep evaluation of design issues and performances of PVM, MPICH and mpiGAMMA libraries

Journal of Internet Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 345-358

  Maniezzo, Marco ^a   Sanna, Andrea ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

GAMMA project; Message passing libraries; MPI; PVM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

GAMMA PROJECT; MESSAGE PASSING LIBRARIES; MPI; PVM;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 24144481253     PISSN: 16079264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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