Message passing for linux clusters with gigabit ethernet mesh connections

Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Chen, Jie ^a   Watson III, William ^a   Edwards, Robert ^b   Mao, Weizhen ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^b THEORY CENTER   (United States)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPEED ADAPTERS; MESSAGE PASSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK INTERCONNECTS (NIC); SPECIFIC APPLICATION DOMAIN;

BANDWIDTH; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; SPECIFICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 33746293303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2005.287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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