SilkRoad: A multithreaded runtime system with software distributed shared memory for SMP clusters

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 243-249

  Peng, L ^a   Wong, W F ^a   Feng, M D ^a   Yuen, C K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Concurrent computing; Control systems; Distributed computing; Multithreading; Programming profession; Software performance; Software systems; Software testing; System testing; Yarn

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MULTITASKING; SOFTWARE TESTING; YARN;

CONCURRENT COMPUTING; MULTI-THREADING; PROGRAMMING PROFESSION; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM TESTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84949560197     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2000.889067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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