A performance model of the Parallel Ocean Program

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-276

  Kerbyson, Darren J ^a   Jones, Philip W ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale systems; Ocean modeling; Performance analysis; Performance modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA PROCESSING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

OCEAN MODELING; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PERFROMANCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 23844436928     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342005056114     Document Type: Article

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