The lightweight protocol CLIC: Performance of an MPI implementation on CLIC

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn 2001-October, Issue , 2001, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; LINUX;

COMMUNICATION LAYERS; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS; LIGHTWEIGHT PROTOCOLS; LINUX- OPERATING SYSTEM; MULTIPROGRAMMINGS; OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL; PERFORMANCE; RELIABLE MESSAGE DELIVERIES; SHORT MESSAGE;

MULTIPROGRAMMING;

EID: 85116564251     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2001.960005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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