An operating system support to low-overhead communications in NOW clusters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1199, Issue , 1997, Pages 130-143

  Marenzoni, P ^a   Rimassa, G ^a   Vignali, M ^a   Bertozzi, M ^a   Conte, G ^a   Rossi, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b SMART Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

COMMUNICATION LATENCY; FAST ETHERNET; HIGH BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION; LIGHTWEIGHT PROTOCOLS; OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT; PUBLIC DOMAINS; SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; SYSTEM APPROACH;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 84958964824     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-62573-9_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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