Portable and architecture independent parallel performance tuning using a call-graph profiling tool

Proceedings of the 6th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, PDP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 286-292

  Hill, Jonathan M D ^a   Jarvis, Stephen A ^a   Siniolakis, Constantinos J ^a   Vasilev, Vasil P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CALL GRAPHS; EASE-OF-USE; OPTIMISATIONS; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PARALLEL PROGRAM; PERFORMANCE TUNING; POST MORTEM; PROFILING TOOLS; TRACE INFORMATION;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 0343393896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMPDP.1998.647211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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