A thread performance comparison: Windows nt and solaris on a symmetric multiprocessor

Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Zabatta, Fabian ^a   Ying, Kevin ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LOW COSTS; MULTIPROCESSOR MACHINES; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; SOLARIS; SYMMETRIC MULTI-PROCESSORS; WINDOWS NT;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 85071607307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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