Performance evaluation and modeling of collective communications on Cray T3D

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1413-1427

  Calvin, C ^a   Colombet, L ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Collective communication benchmarks; Cray T3D; Performance evaluation and modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; STANDARDS;

COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATION BENCHMARKS; MESSAGE PASSING LIBRARIES; NUMERICAL KERNELS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MODELLING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030379757     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(96)00046-4     Document Type: Article

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