Partition cast — modelling and optimizing the distribution of large data sets in PC clusters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1900, Issue , 2000, Pages 1118-1131

  Rauch, Felix ^a   Kurmann, Christian ^a   Stricker, Thomas M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE CELLS;

ARCHITECTURAL TRADEOFFS; FAST ETHERNET; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; LARGE DATASETS; MEMORY SYSTEMS; NETWORK SPEED; PROCESSING POWER; SOFTWARE INSTALLATIONS;

MICROCOMPUTERS;

EID: 84904566717     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44520-x_159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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