Improving application performance on the HP/convex exemplar

Computer

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 50-56

  Sterling, Thomas ^a,d,e,f,g,h   Merkey, Phillip ^b,i,j,k   Savarese, Daniel ^c,l  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^g MIT

^h IEEE

ⁱ Ctr Excellence Space Data Info S

^j Supercomputing Research Center

^k UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^l ORO

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA PROCESSING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

GLOBAL CACHE COHERENCE; HP/CONVEX EXEMPLAR SPP 1000; MESSAGE PASSING PROGRAMMING; SCALABLE COHERENT INTERFACE (SCI) RING NETWORKS; SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0030408120     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.1996.546609     Document Type: Article

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