Process vs. Task migration

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages 536-645

  Paindaveine, Yves ^a   Milojicić, Dejan S ^a  

^a OSF Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); UNIX;

CLUSTERS OF WORKSTATIONS; DESCRIPTORS; INITIAL COSTS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSORS; PROCESS MIGRATION; PROCESS STATE; SINGLE SYSTEM IMAGE; TASK MIGRATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872045616     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.1996.495515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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