Supporting scalable performance monitoring and analysis of parallel programs

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-31

  Li, Kei Chun ^a   Zhang, Kang ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

PROGRAM INSTRUMENTATION; PROGRAM PERFORMANCE MONITORING; TRACE DATA ORGANIZATION;

PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 0032623898     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008084431598     Document Type: Article

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