Designing and implementing lightweight kernels for capability computing

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 793-817

  Riesen, Rolf ^a   Brightwell, Ron ^a   Bridges, Patrick G ^b   Hudson, Trammell ^c   Maccabe, Arthur B ^b   Widener, Patrick M ^b   Ferreira, Kurt ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

^c OS Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Operating systems; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ACCELERATED STRATEGIC COMPUTING INITIATIVES; CAPABILITY COMPUTING; DETERMINISTIC BEHAVIOR; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 65349110398     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1361     Document Type: Article

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