Software distributed shared memory over virtual interface rchitecture: Implementation and performance

Proceedings of 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference 2000, ALS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Rangarajan, Muralidharan ^a   Iftode, Liviu ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; LINUX;

INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE; LOW OVERHEAD; MEMORY OVERHEADS; OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL; SHARED MEMORY; SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; SOURCE CODES; VIRTUAL INTERFACES;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84944764092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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