System research challenges: A scale-out perspective

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 173-180

  Agerwala, Tilak ^a   Gupta, Manish ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MICROPROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY; PROGRAMMING MODEL; SHARED-MEMORY COMPUTERS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33646018938     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.502.0173     Document Type: Article

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