Message-passing and shared-data programming models - Wish vs. reality

Proceedings - International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 131-139

  Sodan, Angela C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human factors; Parallel machines; Parallel programming languages; Parallel programming models

Indexed keywords

HUMAN FACTORS; PARALLEL MACHINES; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODELS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 28744435996     PISSN: 15505243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCS.2005.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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