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Volume 40 , Issue 1 (January 1997) table of contents

Pages: 39 - 45

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

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Andrew S. Grimshaw	Institute for Parallel Computation, The University of Virginia
Wm. A. Wulf	AT&T, Computer Science Department, The University of Virginia
CORPORATE The Legion Team

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
C. Computer Systems Organization
C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design

Nouns: Internet

Additional Classification:
C. Computer Systems Organization
C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

D. Software
D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
D.4.7 Organization and Design
Subjects: Distributed systems

General Terms:
Design

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Legion is a large-scale software project intended to serve as a starting point for the high-performance, worldwide, parallel computing networks of the future. The goal is to provide the illusion of a single coherent virtual machine by hiding t more...

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