Optimisation of application execution on dynamic systems

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 941-949

  Alkindi, A M ^a   Kerbyson, D J ^a   Papaefstathiou, E ^b   Nudd, G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application steering; Dynamic performance prediction; FFTW; Performance modelling; Performance optimisation

Indexed keywords

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035370224     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(01)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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