A novel software-built parallel machines and their interconnections

Journal of Interconnection Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-29

  Akon, Mohammad Mursalin ^a   Goswami, Dhrubajyoti ^b   Li, Hon Fung ^b   Shen, Xuemin ^a   Singh, Ajit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Architectures of parallel computers; Cluster computing; High Performance Computing (HPC); Interconnection networks; Parallel patterns

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS (CIRCUIT SWITCHING);

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; ARCHITECTURES OF PARALLEL COMPUTERS; COMMUNICATION LIBRARY; COMPLEX MAPPING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); PARALLEL MACHINE; PARALLEL PATTERNS; VIRTUAL PARALLEL MACHINES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 51949117070     PISSN: 02192659     EISSN: 17936713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0219265908002138     Document Type: Article

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