A high-performance MPI implementation on a shared-memory vector supercomputer

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1513-1526

  Gropp, William ^a   Lusk, Ewing ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implementation; Message Passing Interface; MPICH; NEC SX 4; Performance; Shared memory multiprocessor

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VECTORS;

MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE (MPI); SHARED MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 0030818949     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(96)00062-2     Document Type: Article

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