The impact of message-buffer alignment on communication performance

Parallel Processing Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 49-65

  Arber, Leon ^a   Pakin, Scott ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CONCEPTUAL; Data alignment; Network performance

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; PERFORMANCE;

COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; CONCEPTUAL; DATA ALIGNMENT; NETWORK PERFORMANCE;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 23844459903     PISSN: 01296264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129626405002052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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