A programming interface for NUMA shared-memory clusters

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

Volumn 1225, Issue , 1997, Pages 698-707

  Dormanns, Marcus ^a   Sprangers, Walter ^a   Ertl, Hubert ^a   Bemmerl, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

NUMA multiprocessor; Parallel programming interface; Shared memory parallelization

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS; NON UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS; NUMA MULTIPROCESSOR; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; SHARED MEMORY MACHINES; SHARED MEMORY PARALLELIZATION; SPARSE MATRIX COMPUTATIONS;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84966596021     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0031641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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