An algebra for cross-experiment performance analysis

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 63-72

  Song, Fengguang ^a   Wolf, Felix ^a   Bhatia, Nikhil ^a   Dongarra, Jack ^a   Moore, Shirley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiexperiment analysis; Performance algebra; Performance tool; Tool interoperability; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; INTEROPERABILITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

MULTIEXPERIMENT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ALGEBRA; PERFORMANCE TOOL; TOOL INTEROPERABILITY;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044276950     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpp.2004.1327905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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