VCluster: A thread-based Java middleware for SMP and heterogeneous clusters with thread migration support

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1049-1071

  Zhang, Hua ^a   Lee, Joohan ^a   Guha, Ratan ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Java; Message passing; MPI; Multithreading; PVM

Indexed keywords

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LIBRARIES; LINGUISTICS; MESSAGE PASSING; MIDDLEWARE; MULTITASKING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

BYTE CODES; DE FACTO; DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING; FORTRAN LANGUAGE; HETEROGENEOUS CLUSTERS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; JA VA PROGRAMMING; JAVA; MESSAGE-PASSING INTERFACE; MPI; MULTITHREADING; OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORKS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING LIBRARIES; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE; PARALLEL-PROGRAMMING MODELS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PVM; SMP MACHINES; SYMMETRIC MULTI-PROCESSOR; THREAD MIGRATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 49749132859     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.862     Document Type: Article

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