A study of an evaluation methodology for unbuffered multistage interconnection networks

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Aljundi, Ahmad Chadi ^a   Dekeyser, Jean Luc ^a   Kechadi, M Tahar ^b   Scherson, Isaac D ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS;

EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; KEY FACTORS; MULTISTAGE INTERCONNECTION NETWORK; OMEGA NETWORKS; PARALLEL COMPUTER; PERFORMANCE FACTORS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 3042627422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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