An implementation of the Hamlyn sender-managed interface architecture

2nd USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Buzzard, Greg ^a   Jacobson, David ^a   Mackey, Milon ^a   Marovich, Scott ^a   Wilkes, John ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE ROUTING; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; INTERCONNECTION FABRICS; INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; MULTICOMPUTERS; MYRINET NETWORKS; ROUND-TRIP TIME;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 85086056468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/248155.238784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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