The record-breaking terabyte sort on a compaq cluster

3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Fineberg, Samuel A ^a   Mehra, Pankaj ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMMERCIAL QUALITIES; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; PRODUCTION WORK; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; SCALABLE ALGORITHMS; SYSTEM AREA NETWORKS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; VIRTUAL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 84949577545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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