A performance comparison between the Earth Simulator and other terascale systems on a characteristic ASCI workload

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1219-1238

  Kerbyson, Darren J ^a   Hoisie, Adolfy ^a   Wasserman, Harvey J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application analysis; Extreme scale parallel systems; Large scale systems; Performance analysis; Performance modeling; Performance prediction

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VECTORS;

APPLICATION ANALYSIS; EXTREME-SCALE PARALLEL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 23244465694     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.891     Document Type: Article

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