Blue Gene/L performance tools

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 407-424

  Martorell, Xavier ^a   Smeds, Nils ^b   Walkup, Robert ^c   Brunheroto, José R ^c   Almási, George ^c   Gunnels, John A ^c   DeRose, Luiz ^d   Labarta, Jesus ^e   Escalé, Francesc ^e   Giménez, Judit ^e   Servat, Harald ^e   Moreira, José E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Parallelldatorcentrum   (Sweden)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d CRAY INC   (United States)

^e European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona   (Spain)

^f IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CACHE COHERENCY; EMBEDDED DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE (MPI);

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 21044439333     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.492.0407     Document Type: Article

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