Improving the design of parallel applications using statistical methods

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 932-942

  Amarandei, M ^a   Lepadatu, D ^a   Caraiman, S ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Design of experiment; Domain decomposition model; Parallel application design

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958833767     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2011.932.942     Document Type: Article

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