Early prediction of MPP performance: The SP2, T3D, and Paragon experiences

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 917-942

  Xu, Zhiwei ^a   Hwang, Kai ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cray T3D; IBM SP2; Intel paragon; Massively parallel processors; Performance prediction; Stap Benchmark

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

APPLICATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; BENCHMARK PROGRAMS; COMPUTATIONAL WORK LOAD; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSORS; OVERHEAD ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT CYCLE; WORKLOAD ANALYSIS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030269883     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8191(96)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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