An approach to fault-tolerant parallel processing on intermittently idle, heterogeneous workstations

Digest of Papers - 27th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, FTCS 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 11-20

  Jeong, Karpjoo ^a   Shasha, Dennis ^b   Talla, Surendranath ^b   Wyckoff, Peter ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

DIFFERENT ARCHITECTURES; HETEROGENEOUS ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RUNTIME OVERHEADS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION; SERIALIZABILITY; TRANSACTION MODEL;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 26944433892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FTCS.1997.614072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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