Microbenchmark performance comparison of high-speed cluster interconnects

IEEE Micro

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 42-51

  Liu, Jiuxing ^a   Chandrasekaran, Balasubramanian ^a   Yu, Weikuan ^a   Wu, Jiesheng ^a   Buntinas, Darius ^a   Kini, Sushmitha ^a   Panda, Dhabaleswar K ^a   Wyckoff, Pete ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPEED CLUSTER INTERCONNECTS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MICROBENCHMARK;

BANDWIDTH; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

EID: 1842583298     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2004.1268994     Document Type: Article

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