A Performance Analysis of the Berkeley UPC Compiler

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 63-73

  Chen, Wei Yu ^a   Bonachea, Dan ^a   Duell, Jason ^b   Husbands, Parry ^b   Iancu, Costin ^b   Yelick, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global address space; Parallel; Performance; UPC

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL ADDRESS SPACE; SHARED DATA; UNIFIED PARALLEL C (UPC); UPC;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 1142293067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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