Parallel application performance on shared high performance reconfigurable computing resources

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 60, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 107-125

  Smith, Melissa C ^a   Peterson, Gregory D ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic performance modeling; High performance computing (HPC); Performance evaluation; Reconfigurable computing (RC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ANALYTIC PERFORMANCE MODELING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING (RC);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 14544268589     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peva.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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