Cost Effectiveness of an Adaptable Computing Cluster

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 54-

  Underwood, Keith D ^a   Sass, Ron R ^a   Ligon, Walter B ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COSTS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

BEOWULF CLUSTER; COMPUTING CLUSTERS; COST ADVANTAGES; CUTTING EDGES; EDGE NETWORKS; MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS; PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING; RECONFIGURABLE- COMPUTING; SUBSYSTEM TECHNOLOGY;

COST EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 84877073386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/582034.582088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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