Is MPI suitable for a generative design-pattern system?

Parallel Computing

Volumn 32, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 616-626

  Mehta, Paras ^a   Amaral, José Nelson ^a   Szafron, Duane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cowichan problems; Design patterns; Mesh; MPI; Parallel programming; Programming environments; Search tree

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COWICHAN PROBLEMS; DESIGN PATTERNS; MESH; MPI; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; SEARCH TREE;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750288438     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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