A lightweight communication library for distributed computing

Computational Science and Discovery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Groen, Derek ^a,b   Rieder, Steven ^a,b   Grosso, Paola ^b   De Laat, Cees ^b   Zwart, Simon Portegies ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMSTERDAM; COMMUNICATION LIBRARY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; N-BODY SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE TESTS; PLATFORM INDEPENDENT;

MESSAGE PASSING; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 78649785258     PISSN: 17494680     EISSN: 17494699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1749-4699/3/1/015002     Document Type: Article

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