Configurable communication middleware for clusters with multiple interconnections

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1657-1665

  Mohamed, Nader ^a   Al Jaroodi, Jameela ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Communication middleware; Configurable networking; Multiple networks

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA MINING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMMUNICATION MIDDLEWARE; CONFIGURABLE NETWORKING; MULTIPLE NETWORKS;

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

EID: 3142741558     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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