PARALLEL COMPUTING ON ANY DESKTOP.

This article discusses the applications of parallel computing beyond the scientific and governmental research community. Developers using the OpenMP parallel programming model have created multithreaded applications in Beowulf clusters, a computer network technology harnessing hundreds of workstatio...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 9; pp. 75 - 79
Main Author: Marowka, Ami
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2007
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