Java Fast Sockets: Enabling high-speed Java communications on high performance clusters

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4049-4059

  Taboada, Guillermo L ^a   Touriño, Juan ^a   Doallo, Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gigabit Ethernet; High performance cluster; Java sockets; Myrinet; Scalable coherent interface

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ETHERNET; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPEED; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

GIGABIT ETHERNET; HIGH PERFORMANCE CLUSTER; JAVA SOCKETS; MYRINET; SCALABLE COHERENT INTERFACE;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 54949101966     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.08.012     Document Type: Article

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