On the viability of component frameworks for high performance distributed computing: A case study

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 275-283

  Kurzyniec, D ^a   Sunderam, V ^a   Migliardi, M ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Application software; Backplanes; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Functional programming; Grid computing; Kernel; Metacomputing; Programming environments; Software systems

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; GRID COMPUTING; LEGACY SYSTEMS;

BACKPLANES; CONCURRENT COMPUTING; KERNEL; META-COMPUTING; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84949206788     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2002.1029927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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