Message passing vs. shared address space on a cluster of SMPs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Shan, H ^a   Singh, J P ^a   Oliker, L ^b   Biswas, R ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MICROCOMPUTERS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

COMMUNICATION PATTERN; PARALLEL EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; SCALABLE PERFORMANCE; SHARED ADDRESS SPACES; SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 33746683169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2001.925009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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