Architectural specification for massively parallel computers: An experience and measurement-based approach

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1271-1316

  Brightwell, Ron ^a   Camp, William ^a   Cole, Benjamin ^a   DeBenedictis, Erik ^a   Leland, Robert ^a   Tomkins, James ^a   Maccabe, Arthur B ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Amdahl; Commodity processors; Distributed memory; Massively parallel computing; Shared memory; Supercomputing; Vector processors

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIMULATORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

AMDAHL; COMMODITY PROCESSORS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING; SHARED MEMORY; VECTOR PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 23244450120     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.893     Document Type: Article

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