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Process Migration: Effects on Scientific Computation
This report describes the notion of process migration. and points out certain vulnerabilities to architectural assumptions. Computationally intensive processes, typified by scientific computations, are among the best candidates for migration. In architecturally heterogeneous systems, these processes face particular problems due to their dependence on architectural features such as "machine precision". We point out some of these problems. and suggest some solutions.
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- Academic Units
- Computer Science
- Publisher
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
- Series
- Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports, CUCS-268-87
- Published Here
- November 28, 2011