DP: A paradigm for anonymous remote computation and communication for cluster computing

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1052-1065

  Johnson, Binu K ^b   Karthikeyan, R ^b   Ram, D Janaki ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Data parallelism; Distributed pipes; Distributed problem solving; Loosely coupled distributed systems; Network of workstations; Parallel programming; Steady state distribution; Task parallelism

Indexed keywords

DATA PARALLELISM; DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; LOOSELY COUPLED DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; STEADY-STATE DISTRIBUTIONS; TASK PARALLELISM;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; DYNAMIC POSITIONING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); PIPE;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33645625534     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.963417     Document Type: Article

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