Architecture independent performance characterization and benchmarking for scientific applications

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 467-474

  Strohmaier, Erich ^a   Shan, Hongzhang ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; ARCHITECTURE INDEPENDENT PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; CODE ADAPTATION; KERNELS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SIMULATORS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 16244377113     PISSN: 15267539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOT.2004.1348302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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