An efficient OS support for communication on Linux clusters

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 397-402

  Diaz A F ^a   Ortega, J ^a   Fernandez F J ^a   Anguita, M ^a   Canas A ^a   Prieto, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Application software; Bandwidth; Delay; Kernel; Linux; Network interfaces; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Protection; Telecommunication network reliability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LINUX; MULTIPROGRAMMING; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

COMMUNICATION LAYERS; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; DELAY; KERNEL; OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL; OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT; PROTECTION; RELIABLE MESSAGE DELIVERIES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84953751099     PISSN: 15302016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPPW.2001.951978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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