Optimizing synchronization operations for remote memory communication systems

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Buntinas, Darius ^a   Saify, Amina ^b   Panda, Dhabaleswar K ^a   Nieplocha, Jarek ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DELL INC   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; FENCES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BARRIER OPERATIONS; BARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION; COMMUNICATION LIBRARY; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; OPTIMIZED OPERATIONS; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; REMOTE MEMORY; SYNCHRONIZATION OPERATION;

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

EID: 84947240822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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