The effects of communication parameters on end performance of shared virtual memory clusters

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Bilas, Angelos ^a   Singh, Jaswinder Pal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Clustering; Communication parameters; Distributed memory; Host overhead; Interrupt cost; Latency; Network occupancy; Shared memory

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

CLUSTERING; COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; HOST OVERHEAD; LATENCY; SHARED MEMORY;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84900303378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/509593.509594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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