Performance evaluation of the SX-6 vector architecture for scientific computations

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-93

  Oliker, Leonid ^a   Canning, Andrew ^a   Carter, Jonathan ^a   Shalf, John ^a   Skinner, David ^a   Ethier, Stéphane ^b   Biswas, Rupak ^c   Djomehri, Jahed ^c   Van Der Wijngaart, Rob ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbenchmarks; Nas parallel Benchmarks; Scientific applications; Superscalar performance; Vectorization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER STORAGE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VECTORS;

MICROBENCHMARKS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SUPERSCALAR PERFORMANCE; VECTORIZATION;

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 10844234976     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.884     Document Type: Article

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