Implementing global memory management in a workstation cluster

Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 201-212

  Feeley, Michael J ^a   Morgan, William E ^a,b   Pighin, Frederic H ^a   Karlin, Anna R ^a   Levy, Henry M ^a   Thekkath, Chandramohan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; INDEPENDENT AGENTS; LOW-LATENCY COMMUNICATION; PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY; TRANSACTION SYSTEMS; WORKSTATION CLUSTERS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMMUNICATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84883539106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/224056.224073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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