Multi-protocol active messages on a cluster of SMP's

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Lumetta, Steven S ^a   Mainwaring, Alan M ^a   Culler, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSAGE PASSING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

ACTIVE MESSAGE; ADAPTIVE POLLING; CACHE COHERENCE; CLUSTER OF SMP'S; END-TO-END LATENCY; LOW-LATENCY NETWORKS; MICRO-BENCHMARKS; MULTIPLE LEVELS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84900296956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/509593.509596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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