Chronos: A performance characterization tool inside the EDPEPPS toolset

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-140

  Bourgeois, J ^a   Spies, F ^a   Zemerly, M J ^b   Delaitre, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CHRONOS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033882303     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008121302429     Document Type: Article

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