VIA over SCI - Consequences of a zero copy implementation, and comparison with VIA over myrinet

Proceedings - 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1632-1639

  Ghouas, K ^a   Omang, K ^a,b   Bugge, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Scali AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; HARDWARE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

MYRINET; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; SHARED ADDRESS SPACES; ZERO COPY;

FACSIMILE;

EID: 33744949522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2001.925149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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