Performance Modeling and Evaluation of MPI

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 202-223

  Al Tawil, Khalid ^a   Moritz, Csaba Andras ^b  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

LogP; MPI; LogGP; parallel processing; workstations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142049636     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.2000.1677     Document Type: Article

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